Multilingualism handling

[erral]

We need an endpoint to return the translations of a given content and another one to link two contents as translations of each other.

Progress so far:

• Plone 5 with plone.app.multilingual
• Plone 4 with plone.app.multilingual
• Plone 4 with Products.LinguaPlone
• Plone 4 without Products.LinguaPlone/plone.app.multilingual (it has to work without creating any endpoint)

[erral]

The idea is to provide a new enpoint called @translations on the same way that the current @workflow one that on GET returns the current translations of the content objects and on POST creates the translation link between both.

[erral]

When linking to content items as translations, we need to pass a parameter with the id of the linked content.

For the moment I will try to use the current value of @id of a content-item (its URL) for it.

[erral]

I created a branch for this issue:

https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/tree/issue-225-multilingualism

[erral]

Is it safe to asume that the @translations endpoint should only exist in Plone 5 and not in Plone 4 because p.a.multilingual is included by default in Plone 5 and not in Plone 4?

[erral]

Discussed with @sneridagh and @buchi:

• With Plone 4 and p.a.multilingual we have several different scenarios because we can be using p.a.multilingual version 1 or 2, and this can complicate the testing setup and scenarios, but not the actual implementation, which would be quite similar for Plone 5 (only some imports change, because in Plone 4 and p.a.m 1 and 2 some interfaces are implemented on the package plone.multilingual.

• So we are going to implement the @translations endpoint for:

  • Plone 5 and plone.app.multilingual
  • Plone 4 and Products.LinguaPlone.

This would require to add conditional registrations for LinguaPlone and different test setup.

[erral]

The build is green:

https://travis-ci.org/plone/plone.restapi/builds/207939667

I still want to do some other checks if I can make it work with Plone 4 and earlier versions of plone.app.multilingual (1.x and 2.x) (currently I have some test issues with them)

[tisto]

@erral would you mind creating a pull request? Or is it too early for this?

[erral]

I'll do it. I have just been finishing other stuff. I need to check one or two things, and then I'll issue the PR.

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[erral]

And of course, I need to rewrite the docs to handle changes on #248

[erral]

After a long fight with this issue and the different test-setup scenarios needed to run this, I found it too complex to handle the whole scope of multilingualism handling just in one package.

If I include the implementation for LinguaPlone in plone.restapi, the documentation of plone.restapi breaks, because LinguaPlone installs some more vocabularies, and thus the @vocabularies endpoint documentation test breaks.

If I try to install plone.app.multilingual in Plone 4, there are some more testing breakages that occur when running the tests when the code is exactly the same...

Anyway neither LinguaPlone nor plone.app.multilngual are installed by default in Plone 4, moreover there are two versions of plone.app.multilingual that work in Plone 4 (1.x and 2.x).

So, as the last attempt, I just included the @translations endpoint for Plone 5 (using zcml:condition="have plone-5") and included the tests using some ugly PAM_INSTALLED conditional.

Anyway, the code and tests for LinguaPlone work, so I would go to include it in an external package, something like collective.restapi.linguaplone. I will try to do so also for plone.app.multilingual 1.x and 2.x with something like collective.restapi.pam.

Comments? @sneridagh @tisto @buchi

[erral]

The pull-request is merged, we can close this.

For future reference, only Plone 5 support is added directly on plone.restapi. To get Plone 4 support with either LinguaPlone or plone.app.multilingual use specific addons (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.restapi.linguaplone and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.restapi.pam)