Cannot programmatically specify entity path alias language

Using $entity->path['language'] present first, then falling back to entity_language() seems reasonable.

I'm not entirely sure why this happens, but applying this patch to the stable version causes a side effect. I have a node with, say,

  [title] => basic title
  [nid] => 21
  [language] => es
  [title_field] => Array (
    [en] => Array ([0] => Array ([value] => english title, ...), ...)
    [es] => Array ([0] => Array ([value] => spanish title, ...), ...)

and autogenerated aliases (en/english-title and es/spanish-title). However, when I run this script:

  $node = node_load(21);
  $node->title_field[en][0] = "new english title";
  $node->path['pathauto'] = TRUE;
  $node->path['language'] = 'it';
  node_save($node);

I get

  [title] => new english title
  [nid] => 21
  [language] => es
  [title_field] => Array (
    [en] => Array ([0] => Array ([value] => new english title, ...), ...)
    [es] => Array ([0] => Array ([value] => new english title, ...), ...)
aliases: en/new-english-title and es/spanish-title

I noticed that this happened when the replacement pattern was [node:title] but not when it's [node:title_field]. Of course I should use the second one, but I don't think this should happen anyway. I managed to track down the issue up to the $alias = token_replace($pattern, $data, ...); in line 359 of the stable version. The titles change somewhere during that call. I know it's not a lot of info, but I can't test this in the dev version right now.

Thanks!

q0rban patch works well for me, thanks, all my translated paths are created.

The path may apply by running:

curl -sL https://www.drupal.org/files/pathauto-2030983-respect-entity-path-language-2.patch | patch -p1

Should I use this other patch https://www.drupal.org/node/1155132 together with this to have the pathauto patterns work with all languages (when using Entity Translation?

Or this is just a non-required add-on to that patch?
Thanks

I've been using this and it seems to work for my needs.

It seems several people have it working for their needs.

for us the patch above didn't help.
english / french generating /scripting node creates and translations, english ok path alias is there, french nothing.

We are programmatically /script creating nodes and adding entity translation translation using the entity entity_metadata_wrapper . What we found in our D7 setup is that after saving the source language node (calling the entity_metadata_wrapper save function) pathauto_state was changed or removed for that node, however a path auto was automatically generated for english. What our issue was is that we found that there was no french auto generated alias, and the pathauto_state was deleted for the entity_id (same id for french and english as its one node, field translation/entity translation).

So , right after the entity_metadata_wrapper save() for english, we insert the pathauto_state

//snippet
//..
//..
  $video = entity_create('node', array('type' => 'video'));
  $video->uid = 1;
  $w_video = entity_metadata_wrapper('node', $video);
  $w_video->title->set($vid['title_en']);
  $w_video->status->set(1);  // published
  $w_video->promote->set(0); // not promoted to front page
  $w_video->language->set('en');
  $w_video->created->set($unixtimecreated);
  $w_video->field_youtube_id->set($vid['id_en']);
  $w_video->body->set(array('value' => $vid['desc_en'] . "\n\n" . $sample_en));
  $w_video->save();//saves english version with a automatically generated path alias as we expect

//at this point, for some reason, pathauto_state is missing

  db_insert('pathauto_state') // Table name no longer needs {}
  ->fields(array(
      'entity_type' => 'node',
      'entity_id' => $video->nid,
      'pathauto' => 1,
  ))->execute();

//call the custom function shown at the bottom of this comment
_mymodule_createUrlAlias('node/' . $video->nid, $alias, 'fr');

Then we create the translation of the english.

  $handler = entity_translation_get_handler('node', $video);

  // Configuration about what to translate
  $translation = array(
    'translate' => 0,
    'status' => 1,
    'language' => 'fr',
    'source' => 'en',
  );

  $handler->setTranslation($translation);
  $handler->saveTranslations();

  $w_video->language('fr');
  $w_video->title_field->set($vid['title_fr']);
  $w_video->field_youtube_id->set($vid['id_fr']);
  $w_video->body->set(array('value' => $vid['desc_fr'] . "\n\n" . $sample_fr));

  $w_video->save();

function _mymodule_createUrlAlias($source, $alias, $language) {
  $alias = str_replace(' ', '-', $alias );//replace spaces with dashes
  $alias = strtolower($alias);
  $search = array('/é/', '/ç/', '/à/', '/ö/', '/ò/', '/è/', '/ù/', '/ú/', '/’/');
  $replace = array('e', 'c', 'a', 'o', 'o', 'e', 'u', 'u', '');
  $alias = preg_replace($search, $replace, $alias);
  //accents must be removed because w3c is tightly controlled by the english language police
  $alias = 'video/' . $alias;

  $sql = "SELECT * from {url_alias} as ua where ua.source like '" . $source . "' and ua.language like '" . $language . "'";

  $result = db_query($sql);
  $count = 0;
  foreach ($result as $row) {
    $count++;
  }

  if ($count >= 1) {
    drupal_set_message('success: url-alias for ' . $language . ' ' . $alias . ' is already found, good job', 'status', TRUE);
  }

  if ($count == 0) {
    $pid = db_insert('url_alias')
    ->fields(array(
        'source' => $source,
        'alias' => $alias,
        'language' => $language,
    ))
    ->execute();
    $result = db_query($sql);

    foreach ($result as $row) {
      $count++;
      drupal_set_message("success: added url_alias for source: $source to alias: $alias of pid: $pid", 'status', TRUE);
    }
  }
}

after all this, the path alias gets created for french and the pathauto_state is set for this entity.

Not sure why this is, however, after much tests of various patches , the easiest way was the brute force way.

Per the comment in #12 it looks like this issue still needs work.