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Language prefix for custom menu link paths are saved but not used

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Created on 30 March 2015, over 9 years ago
Updated 1 May 2024, 7 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Menu items accept paths with a language but ignore that information when rendering. Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Drupal and have with at least two languages (say English without a path prefix and Norwegian with 'no' as prefix).
2. Create two menu items in main navigation to /node and /no/node. Both are saved.
3. Edit both, they retained what you entered.
4. Go to the front page. Both link to either /node (if page is in English) or /no/node (if page is displayed in Norwegian).

It is expected that they would consider the language entered in the path.

Proposed resolution

Validate the entered path and error if the path is going to be modified by Drupal (e.g. remove language prefix).
The workaround for linking to content in a different language must be using absolute urls.

Remaining tasks

Add a test.

User interface changes

If a url is going to be modified by Drupal on rendering, prevent it and show an error instead of ignoring it (and link to something the user does not expect).

API changes

None.

Beta phase evaluation

🐛 Bug report
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Language system  →

Last updated about 3 hours ago

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🇳🇴Norway eiriksm Norway

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    (Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative) is the tag used by the multilingual initiative to mark core issues (and some contributed module issues). For versions other than Drupal 8, use the i18n (Internationalization) tag on issues which involve or affect multilingual / multinational support. That is preferred over Translation.

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  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇳🇱Netherlands Lendude Amsterdam

    This came up as a bug smash daily triage target.

    Some observations:

    • The validation is now happening at the form level, there are other ways to create menu links (custom code, migrations) but we are not protecting against that
    • The upgrade path is only fixing the menu items at the time of running the update, nothing prevents adding more invalid links. Wouldn't an entity level constraint be better at protecting us here?
    • None of this needs to happen is there are not multiple langagues, but I don't see anything checking for that right?
    • The test coverage seems very slim for the proposed changes.
  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇬🇧United Kingdom james.williams

    Just re-rolling to apply to 9.5.x for now. But yes, @Lendude, those look like pretty valid points to address. Thanks for taking the time to review!

  • Comment 7 months ago →
    🇬🇧United Kingdom steven jones

    Here's a trivially re-rolled patch for 10.2.x

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