Multilingual `label` and `description` fields

[majdal]

Thanks for the great work on this package!

I am working on a multilingual application that needs multilingual controlled vocabulary. django-controlled-vocabulary does exactly what I need, except that I want the label and description fields of the terms to be in both Arabic and English.

A possible solution is to use django-modeltranslation to translates the fields. Is that advisable?

[geoffroy-noel-ddh]

Hi @majdal , thanks for your interest in the package!

I just had a quick look at django-modeltranslation as I wasn't aware of it and it looks relatively straightforward to support: essentially adding a translation.py in the app then (hopefully) the admin and the rest for work automatically.

I'm busy with other projects at the moment so it might take me some time to implement & test the changes. But feel free to discuss here, fork and submit a pull request if you need this soon.

[majdal]

Hello hello - I tried to implement the solution, but ran into the following problem: deschler/django-modeltranslation#628

The write_vocabulary_records_from_managers() function in ControlledVocabularyConfig class is where the problem lies.

Thinking of solutions: The only place when this problem would be encountered is at the beginning, when adding new languages to be translated. So maybe there should be a check if new languages were added, and act accordingly to that? Alternatively the whole write_vocabulary_records_from_managers function could be run more selectively, instead of being called every time on ready?

Once we think of a good solution, I'll update the PR.