Validation of translated model with Ardent

[mdiniz]

Hi there

I just got Translatable working with Ardent with the help of your gist but I'm facing an issue.

To use your example with Country, both Country and CountryTranslation would extend Ardent. I would like to validate the name of the country (say, max 100 characters). For that I would configure the validator in CountryTranslation. I'm able to save translations when the name is valid. So far so good.

If I do something like this:

$country->translate('en')->name = 'a very long name with more than 100 chars';
$country->save();

Then CountryTranslation doesn't save (which is right, since it's not valid). However, I'm unable to get the error messages. If I do $country->errors()->all(), the list of errors is empty. Also, $country->validate() returns true, which is weird.

Do you have any idea about this? That's probably not an issue with Translatable itself, just the way it integrates with Ardent.

[dimsav]

Could anyone using Ardent respond to this?

[RyanThompson]

I will be happy to as soon as I get it implemented.

[joachimVT]

I am facing the same problem, is there already any solution ?

When the name is not valid in the translation table, a record is still created in the country table. Shouldn't that be stopped ? When there is an error no record should be created...

[mvdstam]

I've come up with a solution, by simply coming up with a base model that both extends Ardent and uses the Translatable trait: https://github.com/mvdstam/ardent-translatable/.

It's also on Packagist, but use it on your own risk 😃. I've done some preliminary testing and everything seems to play pretty nice with each other. Using this base class also fixes #12.

[dimsav]

👍 @mvdstam I will put this on the readme file as soon as it is stable.