bugfix: Fix incompatibility issue with hydration hooks in forms (spatie-laravel-translatable-plugin)

[Voltra]

Description

This PR fixes an issue in the locale switcher that made the form filling behave differently on locale switch than on page load.

Without this PR, packages like awcodes/filament-curator that rely on hydration hooks could not be used in conjunction with filament/spatie-laravel-translatable-plugin's language switcher.

The change is absolutely seemless, and comes from my fiddling on a personal project's vendor files trying to fix said bug.

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Testing

• Changes have been tested.

Documentation

• Documentation is up-to-date.

[demianottema]

Could this also be the solution for #11826?

[Voltra]

Seems likely

[bojmaliev]

Any hope this will get merged soon?

[danharrin]

In the meantime, these are methods you can override in your app to see if they fix your issue. This is a very dangerous PR for me to merge and I need to dedicate a lot of time to testing it before it is released.

[bojmaliev]

@Voltra does this still works for you? I tried to override these files in the latest version of filament and I'm getting an exception.

[Voltra]

@bojmaliev I just updated to the latest Filament version and re-applied the patch, it still works as expected

[atmonshi]

hi @Voltra, I haven't test this PR, but seeing the changes are similar to #12372

we cant avoid filling the data see my comment

can you test your code with an upload file?!

[Voltra]

Haven't tested, but know that the way the form data is filled in right now will also mutate data (since it's the form's "data path"), we just go about it using the form's usual behavior instead of working with the raw data directly

[atmonshi]

hey :)

did more testing on your changes
still the same the file upload will be lost after switch the language.

so the issues for the upload is because $this->form->getState() will return the final state which is the file name, when we need the file upload obj to set it to the file component after switching the lang.

can you test your use case with awcodes/filament-curator and use:
$this->form->getRawState()

it seems to work.

edit: adding some debugging screenshot

[danharrin]

I am posting this same message across all Spatie Translatable issues & PRs

Hey all! Wanted to update you on where we're at with the translatable plugin.

I really appreciate your patience while this issue has been active. While I created the plugin for the community, I've never actually had a project where I needed to use it, and that's the same for the rest of the Filament team. As such, it's the reason why the plugin hasn't had as much attention as the others, and is much more unstable: I just don't have the environment to test all the use cases, nor the motivation to make it truly great.

As such, I put out a post a month ago and asked who in the community uses the plugin and has knowledge of plugin development. Luckily, Lara Zeus and Mohamed Sabil stepped forward, who are both authors of popular Filament plugins and are trusted by the community.

We are strongly considering handing over maintenance of the plugin to those developers, for the good of the community. You can find their fork at https://github.com/lara-zeus/translatable.

Since the new developers have lots of experience with the plugin and active projects that use it, they should be able to help debug issues easier and make a much more stable experience for other users.

If their work goes well until v4 is released, we will likely retire the plugin at that point and recommend the fork as an official replacement. If it does not go as expected and the community is unhappy, then we will reconsider this decision. I am closing this for now, and if we decide to take maintenance back officially then we will probably reopen it.

The existing plugin will continue to receive security updates indefinitely. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Many thanks,
Dan