In your app
A controller answers a route on your app: it callslocalizeForm() and returns the answer.
Add the controller
app/Http/Controllers/LocalizeFormController.php
Add the route
routes/web.php
auth lets only your signed-in users reach it.Call it
Your own page’s form or script sends
POST /form/clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6/localize (a form adds @csrf, as every web route checks it), and gets back its answer as JSON. Test it, below, calls it.Call it from the terminal
Terminal
localizeForm() on your default site and prints its answer as JSON. It writes, so it asks first: add --force to skip the question in a script. See Call any method from the terminal for every argument type.
Answers that copy. 409 conflict when one exists and update is not true.
Find the id
id is the document’s _id, from a list. Ask the list for only the fields you need: each row is a document’s id and those fields.
Laravel
Terminal
$row['id'] as id. Drafts: list with aposMode: 'draft' to get the draft’s id (Find an id).
Required parameters
Required parameters
Named arguments, e.g.
localizeForm(id: …); leave out the optional ones.Required. The document’s
_id: a full id names its own locale and mode (the draft’s …:en:draft, the published one’s …:en:published; no aposMode needed), a bare aposDocId takes the request’s (aposLocale, aposMode).Optional parameters
Optional parameters
Returns
Returns
A
Form (Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Data\Form). Form content type. Read its properties ($form->title): each says whether the site always sends it. The example answer is the site’s wire JSON: some keys differ from the property names (_id → id, _form → form, _destination → destination).Always sent. Its title: the name it goes by in every list, and the heading of its page where it has one.
Always sent. The URL name: lowercase words joined by hyphens (letters outside a–z, even emoji, are kept).
Always sent. Select whether this content is public or private. One of
public, loginRequired; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Always sent. The “from” address on this form’s emails. A new form starts with the Email in Site settings → Brand; change it here for this form.
Always sent. The document’s id. On a type with drafts it ends in its locale and mode (
…:en:published, …:en:draft): the part before the first colon is its aposDocId, shared by both copies. The {_id} the type’s routes take.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. A FormSectionArea. Widgets, top to bottom: send { "items": [ … ] }, one object per widget with its type. Writing it replaces the whole area. A new document starts with form-section.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. A RichTextArea. Widgets, top to bottom: send { "items": [ … ] }, one object per widget with its type. Writing it replaces the whole area.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Enable this to send a message to the person who submits this form.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. Enter the “name” value of the field where people with enter their email address. For best results, make sure this field only accepts email addresses.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. A list of FormEmailsItem. Email Address(es) for Results.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. The name of the sheet tab in your Google spreadsheet where you want the submission appended. If not provided, the first sheet of the spreadsheet will be used.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. To use, reCAPTCHA a site ID and secret key must be configured in website code or the website global settings.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. A list of FormQueryParamListItem. Create an array item for each query parameter value you wish to capture.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. A list of FormFormActionsItem. What happens to each submission, beyond being stored in the CMS. Add one row per destination; several can run for one form. Storage always happens regardless.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. In the archive: kept, but out of every list and off the site until it is restored. false (or null) for a live document.Sometimes sent:
null when the site leaves it out. The draft’s preview share key, while its share link is on: the link is the draft’s _url with aposShareKey and aposShareId (the draft’s _id) in its query. Absent otherwise, and on published documents.Errors
Errors
Nothing to catch: the SDK retries what is safe, and Laravel logs and renders the rest (see Errors and testing).
The site refused what was sent:
errors() lists each field’s problem, siteMessage() the first.Retried first: No. Read: errors() (field → messages), siteMessage().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().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().Nothing matches, or the caller may not see it.Retried first: No. Read:
siteMessage(), errorName(), data().A copy already exists in that locale: send
update: true to overwrite it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage(), errorName(), data().The site failed. Its logs say why.Retried first: No: a write may have landed. Read:
siteMessage(), errorName(), data().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().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).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().Attract::site('acme') named a slug that isn’t under sites in config/fetchski-attract.php.Retried first: No: nothing was sent. Read: getMessage(), $e->slug.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 seeRateLimitedonly 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
timeoutinconfig/fetchski-attract.phpfor longer.
Test it
It calls the route above with the SDK faked: the fake answers every call with a valid example, so nothing leaves your machine and no config or key is needed. Save it astests/Feature/LocalizeFormTest.php, then run your tests:
tests/Feature/LocalizeFormTest.php
Terminal
forms.localizeForm with Form::factory()->make([...]), the fields you give over a valid example.
tests/Feature/LocalizeFormAnswerTest.php
Related
List a form’s locales
Attract::forms()->getFormLocales()List forms
Attract::forms()->listForms()Create a form
Attract::forms()->createForm()Get a form
Attract::forms()->getForm()Replace a form
Attract::forms()->replaceForm()Delete a form
Attract::forms()->deleteForm()POST /@apostrophecms/form/{_id}/localize
The endpoint this calls, in the API reference: the HTTP request and answer, and every rule the site checks.