locale:"all" on payload.update

[Utzel-Butzel]

Describe the Bug

I'm currently building a plugin for translating the content of a page via GPT and the most efficient way would be to update multiple languages at once. Do you may know if there is a way to achieve this or if I should work directly with the mongooseAdapter?

The plugin: https://github.com/wirewirewirewire/payload-ai

const updatedLanguage = await req.payload.update({
  // req,
  collection: collection.slug,
  id: doc.id,
  data: {
    content: {
      en: 'English content',
      es: 'Spanish content',
    },
  },
  locale: 'all',
  })
}

This doesn't throw an error but also does not update the content.

Many thanks for building Payload! :)

To Reproduce

Any update using the local API with locale="all" set.

const result = await req.payload.update({
  // req,
  collection: collection.slug,
  id: doc.id,
  data: {
    content: {
      en: 'English content',
      es: 'Spanish content',
    },
  },
  locale: 'all',
  })
}

The result will return the unchanged content, but the expected output would be:

{
  "content": {
      "en": "English content",
      "es": "Spanish content",
    }
}

Payload Version

2.6.2

Adapters and Plugins

localization

#3189

[JessChowdhury]

Hey @Utzel-Butzel! We are currently working on extending the localization features to allow updating multiple locales in one request. You can read more on that here.

In the meanwhile, until these features are finished and released, you will need to perform a separate update for each locale.

The plugin concept sounds awesome. There was another community plugin that I came across here, sharing incase it is helpful to you.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

[Utzel-Butzel]

Hi @JessChowdhury Thanks a lot for your response. In the meantime I converted it into updating each language via a loop. I used https://github.com/r1tsuu/payload-plugin-translator with deepL before, which worked great for translations.

[jackadair]

@Utzel-Butzel I'm trying to import content from a different CMS and am working on a script to import our translations as well. Would you mind sharing the loop you're using to update locales? Having some issues and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!

[Utzel-Butzel]

Hi @jackadair This is how I did it using a syncronous loop. You may need to not include req in your request or disable transactionOptions when using MongoDB Atlas.

  const localCodes = req.payload.config.localization.localeCodes

  for (const locale of localCodes) {
    const updatedLanguage = await req.payload.update({
      // req,
      collection: collection.slug,
      id: doc.id,
      data: translatedContent[locale],
      locale,
      context: {
        triggerAfterChange: false,
      },
    })
  }

[jackadair]

@Utzel-Butzel Thank you for the quick response, I found what my actual issue was but you taught me about the context param which will be useful for me as well. Cheers! 🍺

[Utzel-Butzel]

#4583

For now when using multiple transactions with MongoDB Atlas or similar you need to disable transactionOptions

db: mongooseAdapter({ url: process.env.MONGODB_URI, transactionOptions: false })