[Content Manager][i18n] Duplicate translated entity keep relation with duplicated entity

[Slashgear]

Bug report

Required System information

• Node.js version: 20.11
• Yarn version: 3.8.1
• Strapi version: 2.21.0
• Database: postgres 13.3
• Operating system: Macos 14.3.1
• Is your project Javascript or Typescript: Javascript

Describe the bug

Duplication of an entity in the content manager with entity using i18n plugin activated will have a strange behaviour of keep the relation to cloned entity.

sequenceDiagram
    actor User as User
    User->>+StrapiAdmin: Click on duplicate button
    StrapiAdmin->>Controller: Forge a http query to the collection-types.ts `autoClone` method
    Controller->>EntityManager: Call entity manager clone method
    EntityManager->>Controller: Return new entity with `localization` object copied from cloned one
    Controller->>StrapiAdmin: Show a translation alternative in the cloned entity
    StrapiAdmin->>User: Don't permit user to contribute be able to create an alternative language of his entity as it already exist

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Go to content manager
2. Open entity which has i18n activated
3. Click on duplicate/clone button in ListEntity
4. Clone entity has a link to the cloned entity translations

Expected behavior

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• 💡 Ignore automatically localization relation during the cloning process in the entity manager

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Code snippets

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• autoClone mechanism

Additional context

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• @strapi/plugin-i18n 4.21.1

[willempie96]

@derrickmehaffy Is there an update on this?

[Barik85]

I have same issue.

Operating System: macOS
Node.js version:  18.15.0
NPM version: 9.5.0
Strapi version: 4.24.0
Database: postgres
"@strapi/plugin-i18n": "4.24.0"

Will be appreciate for any suggestions how to fix it.

[david-vaclavek]

Hello. Localazy Strapi Plugin users experienced the same issue as @Barik85 stated.

Operating System: macOS
Node.js version:  18.15.0
NPM version: 9.5.0
Strapi version: 4.24.0
Database: postgres
"@strapi/plugin-i18n": "4.24.0"

[MaxLmqr]

Hello.

The expected behaviour would be to have the internationalized content duplicated as well, or not duplicated at all, but it should definitely not link the entity to the same translation.

Right now, the same translated entity is used to link both based entity. We can see it in the database, where the linked ID is the same on the duplicated content. This result in the user being unable to even modify or delete the internationalized entity, because it would affect the initial entity. It prevents the duplication of a base entity to be used.

[strapi-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Strapi Community Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.strapi.io/t/duplicate-translated-entity-keep-relation-with-duplicated-entity-4-month-old-bug/40090/1

[grdevd]

If anyone is interested, here's a patch (hack) to this problem.

diff --git a/node_modules/@strapi/strapi/dist/services/entity-service/index.js b/node_modules/@strapi/strapi/dist/services/entity-service/index.js
index 7254905..2531362 100644
--- a/node_modules/@strapi/strapi/dist/services/entity-service/index.js
+++ b/node_modules/@strapi/strapi/dist/services/entity-service/index.js
@@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ const createDefaultImplementation = ({
         contentType: model
       }
     );
+
+    if(Array.isArray(entityData.localizations)) {
+      entityData.localizations = [];
+    }
+
     let entity = await db.query(uid).clone(cloneId, {
       ...query,
       data: entityData