[Ed B.]

I have a custom model "Author" whose entities aren't multi-lingual.

namespace XLite\Module\EdB\Librairie\Model;
use XLite\Core\Database;
/**
 * @Entity
 * @Table (name="authors")
 */

class Author extends \XLite\Model\AEntity

which has a text field

    /**
     * Author Profil
     *
     * @var string
     *
     * @Column (type="text")
     */
    protected $description = '';

with a getter function

    public function getDescription()
    {
        return $this->description;
    }

Now, my problem is that as these entities are not multilingual and the class Author doesn't extend \XLite\Model\Base\Catalog, I seem to get into trouble to format the description.


I tried to put

    public function getViewDescription()
   {
        $value = $this->getDescription();
        $value =  \XLite\Model\Base\Catalog::getPreprocessedValue($value);

        return static $value;
            ?: $value;
    }

in Model/Author.php, but with these lines, the cache regeneration fails.


So I tried to put

    public function describeAuthor()
    {
     $author_id = $this->getAuthorId(); 
    $author = \XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('XLite\Module\EdB\Librairie\Model\
Author')->find($author_id);
 
    $value = $author->getDescription();
    $value = \XLite\Model\Base\Catalog::getPreprocessedValue($value);
    return $value;
    }

in the viewer file (View/Page/Customer/Author.php)

but, this outputs unformatted html code as in the first attached image.


If I put

echo $value

, it works fine as in the second image.


Even though this last approach works, I think there should be a better way to

achieve the same result. That is:

1. The function to format the HTML text should go into model definition (Model/Author.php) or maybe repository (Model/Repo/Author.php)
2. One should be using "return" instead of "echo" to have better controle over the output via the twig file.

So, would anyone know a better way to do it? By the way, trying to transform the model "Author" into a multi-lingual one simply breaks the store.