fix: render a user's dialog override instead of the skill's own - #557
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Every resource type prefers the user override directory: `ResourceFile._locate` walks it before the skill's own files, so a translation written there changes what a skill hears. Dialog is what a skill says, and it was the one type that never looked. `_load_dialog_renderer` built its directory list straight from `locate_lang_directories`, which only ever searches the skill directory, so an override was written, kept, and never used -- not immediately, and not after a restart either. The renderer needs a directory rather than a single file, so it cannot go through ResourceFile. The language-matching half of `locate_lang_directories` is now its own function, and the renderer uses it to search the override directory before falling back to the skill's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds centralized language-directory matching and applies user dialog overrides before skill dialog resources. Tests cover normal rendering, same-language override precedence, and isolation from other-language overrides. ChangesDialog Override Resolution
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A partial user dialog override can hide dialog files that exist only in the skill, causing some prompts to fall back to unresolved keys instead of producing the intended speech. The PR should be updated to merge user and skill dialog files before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SkillResources
participant match_lang_directories
participant DialogRenderer
SkillResources->>match_lang_directories: Match user dialog directory by language
match_lang_directories-->>SkillResources: Return nearest matching directories
SkillResources->>DialogRenderer: Load user directories before skill directories
DialogRenderer-->>SkillResources: Resolve dialog resource
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687-697: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftMerge dialog files at file level.
SkillResources._load_dialog_rendererpasses only the first existing matching directory toovos_utils.dialog.load_dialogsand then returns.load_dialogswalks only that directory. A user directory containing onlyhello.dialogtherefore prevents the skill directory'sgoodbye.dialogfrom loading.MustacheDialogRenderer.render("goodbye")returnsgoodbye.Load the skill dialogs first, then apply user files with matching names. Add a regression test with one overridden dialog and one skill-only dialog.
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In `@ovos_workshop/resource_files.py`:
- Around line 687-697: The _load_dialog_renderer method must merge dialog files
across all matching directories instead of returning after the first existing
directory. Load skill-directory dialogs first, then overlay user-directory files
by filename so user dialogs override matching skill dialogs while skill-only
dialogs remain available; add a regression test covering both behaviors.
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Fixes #556.
SkillResourcessupports user overrides under~/.local/share/mycroft/resources/<skill_id>/, andResourceFile._locateprefers them:_load_dialog_rendererdid not go through that path. It built its directory list fromlocate_lang_directories(self.language, self.skill_directory, "dialog"), and that function only ever searches what it is handed:user_directorywas never consulted, so a.dialogoverride was written, kept, and never used — not immediately, and not after a restart either..voc,.intent,.word,.listand.valueall worked, because those go throughResourceFile. Only dialog was affected, and dialog is the one that decides what the device says.The change
The renderer needs a directory of dialogs rather than a single file, so it cannot route through
ResourceFile. The language-matching half oflocate_lang_directoriesis nowmatch_lang_directories(lang, base_dirs), and_load_dialog_rendereruses it to search the override directory first:locate_lang_directorieskeeps its signature and behaviour; it now delegates its inner loop. Language matching, distance ordering and thelang_matchesthreshold are unchanged, so an override for the wrong language is skipped exactly as a skill directory for the wrong language is.Tests
test_load_dialog_rendererwas a# TODO: passstub. It is now a real test, alongside two more:dev, passes hereEach uses its own skill id, because the class shares one XDG data directory between tests.
Unit suite: 604 passed, 2 skipped. Two failures in
test/unittests/skills/test_intent_layers_e2e.pyare pre-existing — I confirmed they fail identically on a cleandevcheckout, and they are untouched by this diff.test_ask_e2e.pyneedsovoscope, which is not declared as a test dependency; installing it lets that module collect.Not covered
ResourceType.locate_user_directorysetsuser_directoryonly when the directory already exists, and runs once whenSkillResourcesis constructed. An override directory created after a skill loaded is therefore still invisible until restart, for every resource type. That is a separate, smaller issue and not changed here.Why it was noticed
ovos-control-panel has a Translate page whose purpose is letting someone correct or translate what their device says, by writing exactly these files. For
.dialogthe write succeeded, the page reported success, and the device kept saying the original words. The panel is carrying a caveat about it; with this merged it can drop it.Summary by CodeRabbit
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