Querying and search

Query scopes

HasTranslations adds three JSON-path scopes that work on any Laravel-supported database. The locale defaults to the app locale:

Topic::query()->whereLocale('name', 'Investing', 'en')->get(); // exact per-locale value (locale defaults to app locale)
Topic::query()->whereHasLocale('name', 'sk')->get();           // rows with a non-blank 'sk' value
Topic::query()->whereMissingLocale('name', 'sk')->get();       // rows missing 'sk' (feed an AI-fill queue)

Each scope checks that the field is translatable (NotATranslatableAttributeException otherwise) and validates the locale format (InvalidLocaleException), so a request-supplied locale never reaches the JSON-path expression unchecked. whereMissingLocale() pairs naturally with a fill queue:

Topic::query()
    ->whereMissingLocale('description', 'sk')
    ->each(fn (Topic $topic) => FillMissingTranslations::dispatch($topic, 'description'));

Search across locales

Translatable::search() adds a per-locale, case-insensitive search across one or more fields and every supported locale — ilike on PostgreSQL, a lowercased like everywhere else:

use RoundlyConsulting\Translatable\DataTransferObjects\TranslationSearch;
use RoundlyConsulting\Translatable\Facades\Translatable;

$topics = Translatable::search(
    Topic::query(),
    new TranslationSearch(fields: ['name', 'description'], term: 'invest'),
)->get();

// The term is a literal substring — this matches "100%", not every row:
Translatable::search(Topic::query(), new TranslationSearch(fields: ['name'], term: '100%'))->get();

The term is treated as a literal substring: %, _ and \ are escaped and the SQL states its escape character explicitly, so a search for 100% or a_b finds exactly those rows on every driver — including SQLite and SQL Server, which have no default LIKE escape character. The term is always bound; only the searched field name, validated as a plain identifier, reaches the SQL. A search with no fields (or no supported locale) searches nothing and matches no rows — never every row.