Update a field with locale

APIs Content Management API
1

Hi,

Is there a way to update a field with locale option? Say I have a short-text field with two languages for two locales. Is it possible to specify only one language to be updated?

2

Hi Hyang,

That is certainly possible and you just have to select which locale you refer to in the payload of your request, as:

curl -X POST
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <CONTENT_MANAGEMENT_KEY>"
  -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.contentful.management.v1+json"
  -d '{
   "name":"English (British)",
   "code":"en-GB"
}'
"https://api.contentful.com/spaces/<SPACE_ID>/locales"

Let me know if you’re using one of our SDKs and I can also provide you an example with that.

3

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for the reply. I’m trying to do similar thing to your example using the Content Management API in Python as you can see here:

entry= self.client.entries(<space id>, <environment id>).find(<id>)
entry.name = {'en-US': 'englishname', 'en-GB': 'britishname'}

I got this error message:

contentful_management.errors.UnprocessableEntityError: HTTP status code: 422
Message: Validation error
Details:

  • Name: type - Path: ‘[‘fields’, ‘name’, ‘en-US’]’ - Value: {‘en-US’: ‘englishname’, ‘en-GB’: ‘britishname’}

Only been able to update the default locale language using this so far:

entry= self.client.entries(<space id>, <environment id>).find(<id>)
entry.name = 'englishname'