Not working in Laravel 8

[maciekish]

Describe the bug
Hi, After upgrading my working Laravel 7 instance to Laravel 8 using a Laravel Shift, laravel-translatable no longer works. It seems like the translatedAttributes are ignored and SQL constraints fail because data is missing. I have done some initial troubleshooting and it seems like static::saved in bootTranslateble in Translatable.php never gets called. bootTranslateble does however get called as part of Laravel initialization, it just seems to ignore static::saved.

To Reproduce
Model:

<?php

namespace App;

use ...
use \Astrotomic\Translatable\Translatable;

public $translatedAttributes = ['title', 'body'];

class Page extends Model
{
    public static function boot()
    {
        parent::boot();

        static::creating(function ($self) {
            $self->slug = Str::slug($self->title, '-');
        });
    }
...

Controller store(Request $request) function looks like this:

    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $validator = Validator::make($data = $request->all(), Page::$rules);

        if ($validator->fails()) {
            return redirect()->back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
        }

        $page = Page::create($data);

        return redirect()->action('PageController@index');
    }

As part of my trubleshooting, i have tried to modify the $data array according to the latest documentation, but this still produces the same error:

    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $validator = Validator::make($data = $request->all(), Page::$rules);

        if ($validator->fails()) {
            return redirect()->back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
        }

        //Modify $data for troubleshooting to match documentation format.
        $locale = \App::getLocale();
        $data['slug'] = Str::slug($data['title'], '-');

        //Nest title and body under the proper locale identifier in the array 
        $data[$locale]['title'] = $data['title'];
        $data[$locale]['body'] = $data['body'];

        //Unset the previous root level values
        unset($data['title']);
        unset($data['body']);

        $page = Page::create($data);

        return redirect()->action('PageController@index');
    }

Expected behavior
The object should be created properly with some of the data in the pages table and the title and body attributes in the page_translation table.

Versions (please complete the following information)

• PHP: 7.4.8
• Database: MySQL 5.7.30-0ubuntu0.18.04.1-log
• Laravel: 8.13.0
• Package: v11.9.0

Additional context
It seems like laravel-translatable is recognized and loaded by Laravel but the events are never fired. I can manually save data like this after creating an object, but it was never necessary before.

$page->translate(\App::getLocale())->title = $data['title'];

I have verified that $data contains something for both the title and body.

Exception
SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry '' for key 'pages_slug_unique' (SQL: insert into pages (slug, updated_at, created_at) values (, 2020-11-07 17:43:56, 2020-11-07 17:43:56))

The place where the slug should be is blank in the values.

[Gummibeer]

The exception fired seems to belong to your main model and not the translation, as it complains about the slug which isn't translated!?
The reason why the saved() event listener isn't called is that the main model isn't saved. It seems like your upgrade or something else "destroyed" your initial save call and not the translatable package.

Some ideas:

• Model guarding in the main model or translation one - fillable/guarded
• pre Observer/Eventlistener that returns false

Could you check what happens before/in/after that line $self->slug = Str::slug($self->title, '-');?
So what $self->title returns and if $self->slug is defined afterward and so on?
And do you have any other traits in place that could break the save?
All tests are still passing with L5.8 to L8.

[maciekish]

Hi again, it seems like this was the problem

protected $guarded = [''];

It worked all the way from Laravel 5 through Laravel 7. But i guess they fixed this in Laravel 8 and "broke" laravel-translatable for me. The below code is fine and everything seems to be working again.

protected $guarded = [];