Blocks support?

[denisvlr]

Hello,

Can this package work for Block translations?

Assuming we have a block such as the following one:

class PersonBlock(blocks.StructBlock):
    first_name = blocks.CharBlock(required=True)
    surname = blocks.CharBlock(required=True)
    biography = blocks.RichTextBlock()

Would it be possible to enable translations on its fields?
Applying the TranslationMixin doesn't work.

I guess it was made to only translate Pages or Snippets.

[dwasyl]

If you use the latest alpha release (v0.5.0a1) it doesn't need the mixin, and in theory it's just based on modeltranslation so it should work on StructBlock type models (but it doesn't).

I'd been meaning to point out the same issue, registering the StructBlock model with modeltranslation seems to fail.

[Jason-Abbott]

If I may resurrect an old issue ... we've installed 0.8 with Django 1.11.10 and wagtail 1.13.1 (all the latest, I think) and are encountering the same limitation. Trying to register a StructBlock model results in a non-iterable item error.

I don't mind working on the code and submitting a PR if I could maybe get a pointer to start.

[dmarcelino]

Hi @Jason-Abbott! All contributions are welcomed.

I'm not aware of what kind of subtleties StructBlock entails but I'd say the best place to start looking at the code is probably patch_wagtailadmin.py#L38-L108. From there you should get the gist of how the patching is done. Running in debug mode also helps considerably.

[Jason-Abbott]

Thanks @dmarcelino. I've started working on this. The Wagtail blocks are quite a bit different from the pages and panels since they aren't Django models so I'm approaching from another angle. I'll share when I have something.

[DiogoMarques29]

Hello @Jason-Abbott
Any news on this?

Cheers

[mihow]

Has anyone attempted this yet? I may be giving it a whirl.

[prasenr]

Has anyone attempted this yet? I may be giving it a whirl.

@mihow did you attempt to fix the translation for Struckblocks?