fix(billing): localize insufficient-quota errors

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• Closes Insufficient-quota errors are always Chinese, ignoring the user's language #7573
• Related: none

User request

• Verbatim:

This repository is my fork of QuantumNous/new-api. Read AGENTS.md first and follow its rules.

Before changing anything, make sure you work on the latest upstream code: add https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api as the "upstream" remote, fetch it, and create the branch fix/quota-insufficient-i18n from upstream/main.

The problem: when a user runs out of quota, the API returns a hard-coded Chinese error message, even on an English deployment. The messages are in service/billing_session.go (around lines 235, 241, 280, 394 and 400 on upstream main), for example "用户额度不足, 剩余额度: %s". The i18n system already has a matching key, quota.insufficient (i18n/keys.go, i18n/locales/en.yaml), that is never used.

1. First confirm the bug on current main. Trace how this message reaches the API client, and how i18n.T(c, ...) chooses the language. Check whether the billing code has access to the request context.
2. Fix only these quota messages. Leave the other hard-coded Chinese strings in the codebase alone. Send the messages through the i18n system, with the amounts as parameters, and add the keys to all backend locale files. Do not change error codes, HTTP status codes or retry behavior.
3. Add or update a Go test. Run go build ./... and the relevant go test commands, and show me the exact commands and their output.
4. Commit and push the branch to my fork only.

Do NOT open a pull request, file an issue, or post anything on GitHub. Instead, end with two drafts for me to review and post myself: an issue body using .agents/github/ISSUE.md, and a PR body using .agents/github/PR.md. Keep both short and factual.

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Kind

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Performance / refactor
• Docs
• Other:

Issue facts

• Actual behavior: insufficient-quota errors return Chinese error.message no matter what the request language is.
• Impact: users of non-Chinese deployments get a Chinese message when their quota runs out, and their language preference has no effect on it
• Frequency: always, on that path
• Evidence that the problem is in new-api rather than the client or upstream: the error comes from new-api pre-consume. No upstream call is made.
• Applicable types and their fields: relay (any pre-consuming endpoint). Billing, frontend and deployment are not applicable.

Change

• The five fmt.Errorf messages in service/billing_session.go now use i18n.T(c, key, params). The amounts are template parameters (Remaining, Required, Error).
• New keys quota.user_insufficient, quota.pre_consume_failed and subscription.quota_insufficient in en, zh-CN and zh-TW. The zh-CN text is byte-identical to the old strings.
• BillingSettler.Reserve had no request context, which the message at line 280 needs. It now takes c *gin.Context, the same way Refund does. All three callers already had c.
• Error codes, HTTP status codes and retry/log options are unchanged.
• Follow-up (28b7893, from the CodeRabbit review): when the submit-time Reserve in task submission (controller/relay.go) fails with insufficient_user_quota, the localized message is passed through instead of the fixed English text. Any other reserve error, such as a database error, keeps the generic text.

Research

Duplicate / prior art

• Search queries (issues, PRs): 用户额度不足, insufficient user quota with i18n / Accept-Language (web search restricted to github.com). Closest: 用户额度为负导致所有请求 403：钱包余额与令牌额度均充足仍提示「用户额度不足」(https://newapi.sharedchat.top/) #7448, a different cause (when the error fires, not its language)
• What already existed and why this is not a duplicate: quota.insufficient exists but has no amount parameter and is unused. It is left unchanged.

Docs and code

• https://docs.newapi.ai/ : the personal settings page says the user's language preference "will affect the API error message language". This change makes that true for the quota errors.
• https://deepwiki.com/QuantumNous/new-api : nothing on backend error language
• README / repo docs: not applicable
• Code paths and what they imply for this change: controller/relay.go sends NewAPIError.Error() to the client as-is, so the text must be translated where it is created. i18n.GetLangFromContext needs the *gin.Context.

Alternatives considered

• Option A: resolve the language once in NewBillingSession and store it on the session. Rejected because it adds a user cache/DB lookup to every request, not only to failed ones.
• Option B: store *gin.Context on the session. Rejected because gin contexts are pooled and the session outlives the handler.
• Why this approach: the context is passed explicitly and only read on the error path.

Files

Path	Why
service/billing_session.go	messages go through i18n; Reserve/reserveFunding take c
i18n/keys.go, i18n/locales/{en,zh-CN,zh-TW}.yaml	new keys
relay/common/billing.go	Reserve interface signature
service/image_billing.go, service/tiered_settle.go, controller/relay.go	pass c to Reserve
service/task_billing_test.go	regression test
service/tiered_settle_test.go, relay/convert_request_error_test.go, relay/helper/price_test.go, controller/relay_task_plugin_test.go, controller/plugin_native_e2e_test.go	test fakes follow the new signature
controller/relay.go, controller/relay_task_plugin_test.go	follow-up: task reserve failure keeps the localized quota message; table test

Behavior

• Before: Accept-Language: en-US → 用户额度不足, 剩余额度: ＄0.000000
• After: Accept-Language: en-US → Insufficient user quota, remaining quota: ＄0.000000. zh-CN output is unchanged.
• Explicit non-goals / leftover work: other hard-coded Chinese strings are not changed. The subscription message still appends the raw model error text (e.g. no active subscription), as before.

Verification

• Commands and results:
  • go build ./... (with a placeholder file in web/dist, which main.go embeds) → exit 0
  • go vet ./service ./relay/... ./controller ./i18n → exit 0
  • gofmt -l service relay controller i18n → no output
  • go test ./service -run TestInsufficientQuotaErrorsFollowRequestLanguage -count=1 -v → 10/10 PASS
  • The same test against the original messages → all 5 en-US subtests FAIL with Chinese text. All 5 zh-CN subtests pass, which confirms the Chinese text is unchanged.
  • go test ./service ./i18n ./relay/... ./controller -count=1 → all ok
  • Build, gofmt, the regression test (including the check against the original messages) and the package tests re-run in a separate fresh clone of this branch (b2a19a8), Go 1.25.1: same results
  • Follow-up commit 28b7893: go test ./controller -run TestExecuteTaskSubmissionReserveFailureMessage -count=1 -v → 3/3 PASS. With the controller/relay.go change reverted, the localized-message case FAILS and the two generic-text cases pass.
  • Follow-up commit 28b7893: go build ./... and go vet ./controller ./service → exit 0; gofmt -l controller service relay i18n → no output; go test ./controller ./service ./i18n ./relay/... -count=1 → all ok
• Manual steps and observed result: none
• UI: none. Backend-only change.
• Tests added or updated, or why none: TestInsufficientQuotaErrorsFollowRequestLanguage covers all five sites × en/zh-CN. It checks the exact message, insufficient_user_quota, 403 and skip-retry.
• Databases / providers / platforms exercised: SQLite (in-memory, unit test). No schema or query changes.
• Not verified: live deployment, MySQL/PostgreSQL (no DB behavior changed)

Risks

• Failure modes: a caller outside this repo that implements BillingSettler would need the new Reserve signature.
• Billing / quota / auth impact: none on amounts. Only the error text changes.
• Follow-ups: none

Scope check

• Single focused change: yes
• Secrets included: no
• Out of scope (Coding Plan / reverse-engineered channel / third-party wrapper / Codex / pass-through-only forwarding): no

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• Bug Fixes
  • Billing errors for insufficient wallet or subscription quota now use messages localized to the request language instead of fixed Chinese text.
  • Insufficient-quota errors preserve their localized message in task responses; other reservation failures retain the generic message.
  • Added English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese messages with details about remaining and required quota or reservation failures.

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Walkthrough

Billing reservations now receive request context. Wallet and subscription quota errors use localized messages. Relay responses preserve typed insufficient-quota messages. Tests cover English and Chinese messages and error metadata.

Changes

Quota error localization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pass request context to billing reservations relay/common/billing.go, service/image_billing.go, service/tiered_settle.go, controller/plugin_native_e2e_test.go, relay/*test.go, relay/helper/price_test.go, service/tiered_settle_test.go	The billing reservation interface, callers, and test doubles now accept a Gin context.
Localize quota insufficiency errors i18n/keys.go, i18n/locales/*.yaml, service/billing_session.go, service/task_billing_test.go	Quota and subscription message keys and translations are added. Billing errors use request context for localization. Tests check English and Chinese messages, error codes, HTTP status, and retry classification.
Preserve typed quota errors in relay responses controller/relay.go, controller/relay_task_plugin_test.go	When a reservation fails with an API error coded as insufficient user quota, the relay response uses that error. Other failures use the generic message. Tests check response metadata and reserve-then-refund events.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 28b78

Quota errors follow the request language without an identified change to task retry behavior. No issue remains that should block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b2a19

Quota checks and billing state transitions appear unchanged. The main design risk is that implementations of the billing interface outside this repository may need to adopt its new method signature.

Retained concerns

• Low · architecture · inferred: Adding a request-context parameter to the exported BillingSettler.Reserve method requires external implementations, if any, to change. Observed in-repository implementations and callers have been updated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed language input affects quota-error presentation, not the authenticated user ID, funding owner, or reservation amount in the inspected billing path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Authentication-derived context supplies billing identity and settings. The billing path reads request context for translation while retaining its wallet, subscription, token, and fallback checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The inspected token and funding reservation ordering and failure rollback remain intact after context threading.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separately consider whether public subscription-quota messages should omit underlying backend failure text. Its inclusion predates this PR and is not assessed as a newly introduced disclosure.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR meets the coding requirements in issue #7573. The five quota error sites in service/billing_session.go now call i18n.T with amount or error parameters. English, Simplified Chinese, and Trad…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed interface signatures and caller updates provide request context for localization. The locale changes, task error propagation, and tests support issue #7573. The available PR summary shows …
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: localizing insufficient-quota billing errors.

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• i18n/locales/zh-CN.yaml
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• relay/common/billing.go
• relay/convert_request_error_test.go
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