Adds a language option to the update_translation_fields commands

[MrCordeiro]

Now, not only the default language will have its translation field populated, but you can provide a --language option to populate any other language listed on your settings.py.

My use case was as follows:

I needed to search an Object by its name field, like so:

Object.objects.filter(name__icontains="query")

But when someone from Italy tried searching for a translatable object, it would look for the name_it field only. If that field was empty, it wouldn't search into the default name field as well. The most straightforward solution was to populate all translatable fields regardless of whether they were using the default language or not.

So, if I run:

python manage.py update_translation_fields --language it

All the empty name_it fields that are empty will contain the value from the name field.

[last-partizan]

Why are your files contains ^M characters?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1889559/git-diff-to-ignore-m

[MrCordeiro]

I have no idea... Maybe because I'm on Windows?
Tried editing the file on Github, but it didn't work.

[MrCordeiro]

Should I delete this file?
I've only added six because the test suite wouldn't run otherwise, but it not integral to the PR.

[MrCordeiro]

This is to fix the unused COMMASPACE variable

[MrCordeiro]

FIxed COMMASPACE, but need advice on ^M issue.

[MrCordeiro]

Should I delete this file?
I've only added six because the test suite wouldn't run otherwise, but it not integral to the PR.

[last-partizan]

@MrCordeiro yes, you'd better delete this line.

If you install it with poetry install, it should be installed from setup.py as dependency along with django.

[last-partizan]

@MrCordeiro as for advice on ^M - have you followed link to stackoverflow? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1889559/git-diff-to-ignore-m

You should enable git config --global core.autocrlf true.

[MrCordeiro]

@MrCordeiro yes, you'd better delete this line.

If you install it with poetry install, it should be installed from setup.py as dependency along with django.

Line deleted, as it was merely ancillary.

(I had followed the link, but was unable to understand that stackoverflow discussion :-/ ...)

[last-partizan]

Thanks, merged it!