Defining translations for states other than using the static $name property?

[developman-akl]

Hi,

Is there any way to provide translation for the states other than using the static $name property?
That way we save translated state names into the DB, and also the translations are returned by the Spatie\ModelStates\Events\StateChanged properties.

Could you please give some advice? Thanks in advance.

[brendt]

That's not possible. I'd recommend looking into the viewmodel pattern or some kind of state resource to do name mappings for frontend purposes.

[developman-akl]

@brendt I think it is still not ideal to store the public static $name as state name in the database instead of the class name.
Storing the class names would allow to enter translations via the $name.

[brendt]

Using the class name is problematic when refactoring state classes. You'd also have to write DB migrations to update the relevant classnames and is a hassle.