> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Copy forms to another locale

> Copies each listed document into other locales, as a background job.

```ts AdonisJS wrap theme={"dark"}
import app from '@adonisjs/core/services/app'
import { SiteClient } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-sdk'

const site = await app.container.make(SiteClient)
const job = await site.forms().localizeForms({ ids: ['clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6'], toLocales: ['en'] })
```

```json 200 wrap theme={"dark"}
{
  "jobId": "clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6"
}
```

## In your app

A controller answers a route on your app: it calls `localizeForms()` and returns the job’s id.

**1. Add the controller**

```ts app/controllers/localize_forms_controller.ts theme={"dark"}
import { inject } from '@adonisjs/core'
import { SiteClient } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-sdk'

@inject()
export default class LocalizeFormsController {
  constructor(protected site: SiteClient) {}

  async handle() {
    return this.site.forms().localizeForms({ ids: ['clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6'], toLocales: ['en'] })
  }
}
```

The other values are the example’s: take yours from the request, a form or your database.

**2. Add the route**

```ts start/routes.ts theme={"dark"}
import router from '@adonisjs/core/services/router'

const LocalizeFormsController = () => import('#controllers/localize_forms_controller')

router.post('/form/localize', [LocalizeFormsController])
```

Put it behind your auth middleware (`.use(middleware.auth())`): it acts with your key’s access.

**3. Call it**

Your own page’s form or script sends `POST /form/localize` and gets back the job it started (`jobId`). Test it, below, calls it.

Answers at once with the job’s id.

> [accordion] Required parameters
>
> One object, e.g. `localizeForms({ ids })`; leave out the optional fields.
>
> **ids** `readonly string[]` *required*
>
> **Required.** The documents’ `_id`s: a full id names its own locale and mode (a draft’s `…:en:draft`, a published `…:en:published`; no `aposMode` needed), a bare `aposDocId` takes the request’s (`aposLocale`, `aposMode`).
>
> **toLocales** `readonly string[]` *required*
>
> **Required.** The locales to copy them into (unknown locale names are skipped).

> [accordion] Optional parameters
>
> **update** `boolean | null | undefined`
>
> **Optional.** Leave it out (or pass `null`) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Overwrite a copy that already exists in a target locale (default false: an existing copy is left as it is).
>
> **relatedTypes** `readonly string[] | null | undefined`
>
> **Optional.** Leave it out (or pass `null`) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Related document types to copy along (default none).
>
> **relatedOnly** `boolean | null | undefined`
>
> **Optional.** Leave it out (or pass `null`) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Copy only the related documents, not the listed ones (default false).
>
> **messages** `BatchRequestMessages | null | undefined`
>
> **Optional.** Leave it out (or pass `null`) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. The notification texts the CMS shows signed-in users while the job runs (`{{ type }}` and `{{ count }}` are filled in). Optional.
>
> **BatchRequestMessages**
>
> **progress** `string`
>
> Shown while the job runs, e.g. `Archiving {{ count }} {{ type }}…`.
>
> **completed** `string`
>
> Shown when it ends, e.g. `Archived {{ count }} {{ type }}.`
>
> **resultsEventName** `string`
>
> An admin-UI event to emit with the job’s results when it ends (for a custom screen); leave it out otherwise.

> [accordion] Returns
>
> `PendingJob`: the job runs on the site, `jobId` names it. `wait()` needs the management client (the job route is management only): on this client it throws `SiteConfigurationError`. The job started.

> [accordion] Errors
>
> Nothing to catch: the SDK retries what is safe, and throws the rest as the classes below. Your exception handler turns them into your app’s own answers, once for every call (see [Map SDK errors to responses](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/adonisjs/calling-the-api.md#map-sdk-errors-to-responses)); catch only what you want to react to here.
>
> **ValidationFailed** `400`
>
> The site refused what was sent: `errors` lists each field’s problem, `siteMessage` the first.
>
> **Retried first:** No. **Read:** `errors` (field → messages), `siteMessage`.
>
> **AuthenticationFailed** `401`
>
> The API key is missing or refused (malformed, revoked, expired), or a signature its signing mode needs is missing or stale.
>
> **Retried first:** No. **Read:** `siteMessage`, `errorName`, `data`.
>
> **Forbidden** `403`
>
> The key may not do this: a scope it lacks, or an address outside its allowlist. `siteMessage` names it.
>
> **Retried first:** No. **Read:** `siteMessage`, `errorName`, `data`.
>
> **NotFound** `404`
>
> Nothing matches, or the caller may not see it.
>
> **Retried first:** No. **Read:** `siteMessage`, `errorName`, `data`.
>
> **SiteError** `500`
>
> The site failed. Its logs say why.
>
> **Retried first:** No: a write may have landed. **Read:** `siteMessage`, `errorName`, `data`.
>
> **SiteUnreachable** `no answer`
>
> No answer: DNS, a refused connection, TLS, or the timeout (15 s per attempt by default).
>
> **Retried first:** Only when nothing reached the site (`neverConnected()`); never after a timeout, when it may have landed. **Read:** `reason`, `neverConnected`.
>
> **RequestNotSent** `not sent`
>
> The client refused to send it (e.g. a path segment of `..`); the site never saw it.
>
> **Retried first:** No. **Read:** `reason` (what to change).
>
> **SiteRequestFailed** `any other`
>
> Any other status, or a success whose JSON doesn’t match this SDK version’s types (update the SDK).
>
> **Retried first:** No. **Read:** `reason`, `status`.
>
> **UnknownSite** `setup`
>
> `sites.forSite('acme')` named a slug `config/attract.ts` doesn’t list (with the keys in the database: no row in `attract_api_keys`).
>
> **Retried first:** No: nothing was sent. **Read:** `message`, `slug`.
>
> **SiteConfigurationError** `setup`
>
> The site’s entry is wrong: a malformed `baseUrl` or key, a key filed under another slug, or no default site. `node ace attract:check` names the fix.
>
> **Retried first:** No: nothing was sent. **Read:** `message` (what to fix).

## Behavior

* **Access:** an API key with `content:forms:write` (or a master above it: `content:forms:all`, `content:all`, `admin:all`). A signed-in person may call it as far as their own permissions allow; anyone else gets 403.
* **Rate limit:** the key’s own writes-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 120); over it, 429 with `Retry-After`. The client waits and retries for you; you see `RateLimited` only if that runs out.
* **Retries:** a write is sent again only after a 429 (refused before it acted) or when it never reached the site. After a timeout or a 5xx it may have landed: check before you send it again.
* **Timeout:** 15 s per attempt by default; raise `timeout` (milliseconds) in `config/attract.ts` for longer.

## Test it

It calls the controller above with the SDK faked: `fakeAttract()` puts the fake in the container for this one test, and it answers every call with a valid example, so nothing leaves your machine and no key is read. Save it as `tests/unit/forms_localize_forms.spec.ts`, then run your tests:

```ts tests/unit/forms_localize_forms.spec.ts theme={"dark"}
import { test } from '@japa/runner'
import app from '@adonisjs/core/services/app'
import { fakeAttract } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-adonis/testing'
import LocalizeFormsController from '#controllers/localize_forms_controller'

test('forms.localizeForms', async () => {
  const site = fakeAttract()

  const controller = await app.container.make(LocalizeFormsController)
  await controller.handle()

  site.assertCalled('forms.localizeForms')
})
```

```bash Terminal theme={"dark"}
node ace test
```

**Answer with your own values:** fake `forms.localizeForms` with `factories.JobStarted({...})`, the fields you give over a valid example.

```ts tests/unit/forms_localize_forms_answers.spec.ts theme={"dark"}
import { test } from '@japa/runner'
import { factories, fakeAttract } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-adonis/testing'

test('forms.localizeForms answers your values', async ({ assert }) => {
  const site = fakeAttract({
    'forms.localizeForms': factories.JobStarted({ jobId: 'Your value' }),
  })

  const job = await site.forms().localizeForms({ ids: ['clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6'], toLocales: ['en'] })
  assert.containSubset(job, { jobId: 'Your value' })
})
```

## Related

> [card] [List a form’s locales](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/adonisjs/reference/forms/get-form-locales.md)
>
> `site.forms().getFormLocales()`

> [card] [List forms](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/adonisjs/reference/forms/list-forms.md)
>
> `site.forms().listForms()`

> [card] [Create a form](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/adonisjs/reference/forms/create-form.md)
>
> `site.forms().createForm()`

> [card] [Get a form](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/adonisjs/reference/forms/get-form.md)
>
> `site.forms().getForm()`

> [card] [Replace a form](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/adonisjs/reference/forms/replace-form.md)
>
> `site.forms().replaceForm()`

> [card] [Delete a form](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/adonisjs/reference/forms/delete-form.md)
>
> `site.forms().deleteForm()`

> [card] [POST /@apostrophecms/form/localize](https://docs.fetchski-attract.com/api-reference/forms/copy-forms-to-another-locale.md)
>
> The endpoint this calls, in the API reference: the HTTP request and answer, and every rule the site checks.


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