Entity Views area handler does not support translations

Is this person having your same problem? http://drupal.org/node/1744950

Well this entity is rendered by entity api, so views is somehow the wrong project.

As deepM said this is a feature request.

Here is a patch to support translations for nodes. It adds a checkbox to the options form, so the user can choose to whether he wants to use the translation. When the entity is rendered, it will check if the option was enabled and if a translation is available. If so, the translation is loaded.

Thanks for reviewing and (hopefully) committing my patch.

Thanks marcvangend, the patch from #4 works great, though is based on an earlier version of the Entity API.

Main difference is in the render_entity() function where the newer version of the Entity API loads a single entity object using entity_load_single() instead of an array of entity objects using entity_load().

I manually applied this patch and am sorry I do not know how to generate a new diff file.

Thanks for the review, Laurens. Two minor updates have been released since I posted that patch, but it's good to hear the concept still works.

If you have git running on your development machine, this page contains all info you need to create a patch: https://drupal.org/project/entity/git-instructions.

Thank you for the info, will give it a try soon!

Updated for the single entity loading approach.

Thanks,

Pobster

...And if it's any use to anyone else, I've extended it further so that if there's no translation available then you can avoid the rendering completely. Note... This is inside the tnid if statement - so if shouldn't have any effect on non-translated nodes.

Thanks,

Pobster

I figured if you were going to have an "obey language" button then it should work for source nodes which don't have translations too...

I think this is the last one, it doesn't make any sense tweaking this further.

Pobster

The 5 year old patch in #12 to entity_views_handler_area_entity.inc does not apply to the latest entity 7.x-1.x-dev and (if relevant) needs a reroll.

Checking patch views/handlers/entity_views_handler_area_entity.inc...
error: while searching for:
  /**
   * Render an entity using the view mode.
   */
  public function render_entity($entity_type, $entity_id, $view_mode) {
    if (!empty($entity_type) && !empty($entity_id) && !empty($view_mode)) {
      $entity = entity_load_single($entity_type, $entity_id);
      if (!empty($this->options['bypass_access']) || entity_access('view', $entity_type, $entity)) {
        $render = entity_view($entity_type, array($entity), $view_mode);
        $render_entity = reset($render);

error: patch failed: views/handlers/entity_views_handler_area_entity.inc:104
error: views/handlers/entity_views_handler_area_entity.inc: patch does not apply

I think ... if it's been five years, then it probably isn't useful to anyone? Maybe this issue should be closed?

This issue is still active and it's a real problem. Why it has not been commited when possible?

Possibly related with: 2289397