How to create entity translations using JSON:API or REST API?

nstCactus

6/30/24, 8:30 AM

I working on a headless localized site in which entities need to be synced regularly from an external source.

During the sync process, I need to create new entities and their associated translations.

I found out that JSON:API doesn't support this. Are there any workarounds to achieve this in JSON:API?

Is it something that can be achieved with the REST API? If so could you point me to some documentation?

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Drupal

Patrick Kenny

7/1/24, 11:31 PM

Drupal's implementations of JSON:API and REST do not support creation of translated entities at this time as far as I know.

Create Entity Translations

You could try hacking a custom JSON-RPC route or JSON:API Resource, but these are not really intended for entity creation and you would have to do a lot of coding.

If possible, I would use Feeds to sync the entities and their translations. You will need to expose the content to sync in a format that Feeds supports:

CSV
XML
OPML
RSS/Atom
HTML/JSON

There isn't a lot of documentation on multilingual Feeds but it does work.

Create UI Translations

This wasn't in your question but just as a note. You can't create UI translations via JSON:API now, either. One fix is to export your translations as a PO file and import the file with drush:

drush locale:import my_two_letter_language_code my_path/ja.po --type=customized --override=customized

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