use Alice to load fixtures

[lsmith77]

https://github.com/nelmio/alice

related to https://github.com/symfony-cmf/SimpleCmsBundle/pull/55

[uwej711]

How would you handle multi lang content, I guess we need some extension to call bindTranslation?

[lsmith77]

i havent looked at the details yet but yeah i guess we might need something along those lines

/cc @Seldaek

[dbu]

one language would be handled by setting the locale field. but after that indeed we would need "something" that knows what is going on. @Seldaek phpcr-odm translated fields can be updated on the same document and with another call to bindTranslation stored in that language.

[uwej711]

Currently I use something like this in our manual fixtures:

contact:
    class: Website\ContentBundle\Document\Page
    locales:
        en:
            metaTitle: "Contact - Test"
            metaDescription: "Contact - Test"
        de:
            metaTitle: "Kontakt - Test"
            metaDescription: "Kontakt Beschreibung - Test"

which with Alice could be something like this

Website\ContentBundle\Document\Page:
    contact:
        locale:
            en:
                metaTitle: "Contact - Test"
                metaDescription: "Contact - Test"
            de:
                metaTitle: "Kontakt - Test"
                metaDescription: "Kontakt Beschreibung - Test"

[Seldaek]

Alice doens't support localization of an entire item at the moment. It can create two documents in two languages though and then you bind them as the two translations.. I don't know exactly how things work in the CMF nowadays but if you can articulate a bit more maybe we find a good solution. Otherwise the latest alice release has processors which allow you to modify the objects on the way to the doctrine object manager, that might also help.

[uwej711]

I did a quick research and unfortunately the different Doctrine behaviours (ORM) feature different APIs and differ again from PHPCR-ODM. I will look into the processors stuff, maybe that can help.

[uwej711]

Unfortunately the processors have no knowledge of the original fixture data, so this doesn't seem to help. Maybe we can introduce an other syntax like

metaTitle:de: Titel

or

metaTitle: 
     locale: de
     value: Title

[Seldaek]

Can you show me in php code how it looks to populate one of those objects with multiple langs?

[uwej711]

What we need for phpcr odm in the end is something like this:

foreach ($locales as $locale => $value) {
    $page->setMetaTitle($value);
    $page->set ...   // another translated field
    $manager->bindTranslation($page, $locale);
}

It would be good to set all the fields and call bindTranslation only once per field, although it should work to repeat it for each field.

[dbu]

bindTranslation only once per document and locale - might be we would even get not nullable validation complaints otherwise.

[uwej711]

For doing this we still have the translations issue and maybe image loading although I'm not sure we have images in the fixtures ...

[lsmith77]

we do not have images in the fixtures yet .. but we might want to in the future.

[dbu]

i remove the 1.0 milestone from this task. its not critical.