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Manage translation DB fields

Added by Mathias Brodala 10 months ago. Updated 6 months ago.

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Accepted
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Could have
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Category:
Code Cleanup
Start date:
2024-02-07
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Description

Currently the TCA of TYPO3 knows these ctrl options to enable and manage translation behavior for tables:

- languageField (sys_language_uid by convention)
- transOrigPointerField (l10n_parent by convention, l18n_parent in tt_content)
- translationSource(l10n_source by convention)
- transOrigDiffSourceField (l10n_diffsource by convention, l18n_diffsource in tt_content)

Each of these have 2 purposes:

1. Enable translations or a related feature
2. Tell TYPO3 which DB field to use in queries

This by itself is a problem but the main question is whether the names of these DB fields need to be configurable at all.

There are recently a lot of consolidations and simplifications in TCA. The same could be applied here:

- Turn these options from string to bool, thus only enable/disable the feature. TYPO3 would then use fixed DB field names and thus fully manage these.
- Consolidate/merge these options with better and clearer names, e.g. 'enableTranslations' => true, 'trackTranslationDifferences' => true or similar.

Actions #1

Updated by Mathias Brodala 10 months ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #2

Updated by Benni Mack 6 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Accepted

I am much in favor of this "simplification".

For this to work, I assume that we provide a new option in v13, so you don't have to define the other fields anymore.

https://review.typo3.org/c/Packages/TYPO3.CMS/+/75486

We already create the DB fields. I would always create:
  • sys_language_uid
  • l10n_parent
  • l10n_source
  • l10n_diffsource
    unless defined otherwise.

In v14 we could get rid of the other "ctrl" section options then.

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