extract-i18n --output-path extracts in root folder

Question

For extracting translations I use i18n in combination with xliffmerge. I have added the extract-i18n command in the package.json like so:

"extract-i18n": "ng extract-i18n project --i18n-format xlf --output-path src/locale --i18n-locale en-US && ng run project:xliffmerge"

The xliffmergeOptions in angular.json are:

"xliffmerge": {
          "builder": "@ngx-i18nsupport/tooling:xliffmerge",
          "options": {
            "xliffmergeOptions": {
              "format": "xlf",
              "srcDir": "src/locale",
              "genDir": "src/locale",
              "defaultLanguage": "en-US",
              "languages": [
                "en-US",
                "nl-NL"
              ]
            }
          }
        }

Whenever I run the extract-i18n command the messages.xlf file still gets exported to the root folder instead of src/locale.

I have no idea why it isn't exported to the src/locale folder.

Update

After upgrading from Angular 11 to Angular 12 this problem still persists.

Answer 1

I made the mistake of running ng extract-i18n while configuring it in a script in package.json. Instead I should have used npm run extract-i18n.

This solves only a part of the problem though, since --i18n-format and --18n-locale are no longer supported (or so it seems).

The correct command should be:

"extract-i18n": "ng extract-i18n [projectname] --format xlf --output-path src/locale && ng run [projectname]:xliffmerge"

Due to Angular deprecating the keyword "id" in the schema on favor of "$id" I'm not sure how long xliffmerge will continue to work though, since development on ngx-i18nsupport has stopped a few years ago.