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I'm trying to generate the pot files from my site with cake's i18n shell useing cake 2.3. As mentioned in the cake docs the shell should automatically extract the validation msgs. However, none of the validation strings turn up in my pot files.

My validation array simply looks like (also note the validationDomain):

public $validationDomain = 'validation_errors';

public $validate = array( 
 'currency' => array(
 'notempty' => array(
 'rule' => array('notempty'),
 'message' => 'Select a currency'
 ),
 ),
 'title' => array(
 'notempty' => array(
 'rule' => array('notempty'),
 'message' => 'Fill out a title'
 ),
 )

... etc
)

What am i not seeing here?!

Thanks allot!

use this in app not in /app/Console

cake.bat i18n extract

The full explanation is, that the _isExtractingApp() function of the extract task checks for identity between the app path in the --paths command line option and the APP constant in your app. If you are off by a trailing slash the validation error message extraction will be silently disabled.

This commit introduced the problem when adding plugin handling to the extract task.

As a workaround check your --paths option against the APP constant.

For generating validation messages in pot files, you can use the command like this

./Console/cake i18n extract --validation-domain validation_errors

you can also refer the documentation here.

Figured it out.
Apparently the i18n shell does not work when targeting a particular folder. My validation messages were only extracted when running the shell on the whole app folder.

Hope this helps.

As desolat's answer points out there's a bug in ExtractTask::_isExtractingApp() that's still present in latest version of the 2.x branch (CakePHP/2.10.13). The method compares paths without prior normalisation thus is fragile and breaks in some scenarios.

In my case it was failing because of relative paths:

Consolecake i18n extract --quiet --paths .

For whatever the reason, it only works for me when I use an absolute path with a duplicate trailing slash:

Consolecake i18n extract --quiet --paths "C:ProjectsProject Namesrc\"

A hard-coded path wasn't an option because my script is meant to be shared so I used a shell variable. My shell is CMD because I run the script through Composer on Windows:

Consolecake i18n extract --quiet --paths "%CD%\"