Adding LexikTranslationBundle breaks translations from other bundles

[nicodemuz]

I was investigating for a long time how come some 3rd party translations do not work in my project. Turns out that LexikTranslationBundle somehow interferes with the translation loading by the default symfony installation.

For example, installing KnpTimeBundle works as expected when using it by itself. After introducing LexikTranslationBundle, the translations are no longer loaded.

When LexikTranslationBundle is moved as the first bundle in bundles.php, the translations are loaded correctly again.

I created a new public repository to demonstrate the issue, please see: https://github.com/nicodemuz/symfony-translation-test

This Symfony Slack thread may also be of interest: https://symfony-devs.slack.com/archives/C3EQ7S3MJ/p1692172721085889

[nicodemuz]

Could the issue be that 3rd party bundle translations are being look'd up using wrong paths?

# KnpTimeBundle:
*** Using dir /path/to/symfony/vendor/knplabs/knp-time-bundle/Resources/translations to lookup translation files. ***
No file to import

There is no path such as:

/path/to/symfony/vendor/knplabs/knp-time-bundle/Resources/translations

The actual path is:

/path/to/symfony/vendor/knplabs/knp-time-bundle/translations

Does nobody else have this issue? @raziel057 @bartmcleod

[bartmcleod]

@nicodemuz I noticed today that the Lexik bundle indeed looks to export translations to Resources/translations in the project root, while nowadays, the translations live in {project root}/translations . I don't know how easy it is to fix and how it would affect existing solutions.

I saw that the config of a SF 7.03 project that I use for testing has configuration like this

framework:
    default_locale: en
    translator:
        default_path: '%kernel.project_dir%/translations'
        fallbacks:
            - en

lexik_translation:
    fallback_locale: en
    managed_locales: [en, nl]

I can imagine that if one would update the default_path that the framework to match the path that Lexik uses, it would also work well.

[nicodemuz]

@bartmcleod The issue is not about project translations ('%kernel.project_dir%/translations'), the issue is with other 3rd party bundle translations.

For example, try using a 3rd party bundle (e.g. KnpTimeBundle) that uses translations together with this bundle (LexikTranslationBundle):
https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpTimeBundle