Compatibility with JSON fields and laravel-translatable?

[greatislander]

Hi,

I've attempted to set up this package to encrypt a field that's stored as a JSON column and contains translated content (thanks to spatie/laravel-translatable. I based the JSON configuration on the examples shown here: https://github.com/paragonie/ciphersweet/releases/tag/v3.2.0

I've created a very minimal test case with a fresh Laravel application here: greatislander/encrypted-translation@6bb73b7. It adds spatie/laravel-ciphersweet and spatie/laravel-translatable as dependencies, configures the User model to support encrypted fields and translatable fields, and adds a translatable bio field as a JSON column, configured via CipherSweet's addJsonField method with a JsonFieldMap specifying that the en and fr fields in the JSON are text fields.

I have two questions:

1. When attempting to generate a new User using my updated factory, I get the following error:

>>> $user = User::factory()->create()
[!] Aliasing 'User' to 'App\Models\User' for this Tinker session.
TypeError: ParagonIE\CipherSweet\EncryptedJsonField::encryptJson(): Argument #1 ($field) must be of type array, string given, called in ~/encrypted-translation/vendor/paragonie/ciphersweet/src/EncryptedRow.php on line 479

Debugging determined that the field passed to the encryptJson method is a JSON string rather than an array: "{"en":"My bio in English.","fr":"Mon bio en fran\u00e7ais."}". I'm wondering if this transformation happens in spatie/laravel-translatable or in Laravel itself.

2. Assuming I can resolve the first issue, is it possible to dynamically configure CipherSweet to treat all fields in my JSON field as text fields? If content can be translated into multiple languages it would be desirable to encrypt all of them and not have to specify all of them. This may be a question for the upstream CipherSweet library. I could imagine pseudocode as follows:

$encryptedRow->addJsonField(
    'bio',
    (new JsonFieldMap())->addTextField('*')
);

Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give me on this. I'd be happy to contribute patches to either this library or spatie/laravel-translatable to support their interoperability.