'X-Language' header in REST API calls is ignored

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Hello lovely Kirby community,

I’m trying to create some pages via the REST API endpoint api/pages/:id/children. I have a multi-language site with 2 languages (‘de’ and ‘en’). According to the documentation, I’m using the X-Language header to specify which language I want to use.

But when I create a new page, the header is being ignored. No matter which value I use, the page is created in the default language.

Here is my request (cURL syntax – exported from Postman):

curl --location --request POST ‘https://mypage.net/api/pages/imported-blog/children’
–header ‘x-language: de’
–header ‘Authorization: Basic abc123’
–header ‘Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded’
–data-urlencode ‘template=blog’
–data-urlencode ‘slug=hallo-234’
–data-urlencode ‘content[text]=This is a test’

I get a 200 response from this request, but the page is only created in the default language, not in the desired language.

Any ideas why this happens?

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Kirby always creates a page in the default language first. You probably need a follow up command that then updates the page in the target language, at least that how it works in the Panel. Because even when you have a non-default language selected in the Panel, only the default language version is created. The secondary language content file is only written once you hit save in the Panel.

3

You seem to be right. Thanks for this insight. This should be part of the documentation. I created a PR for this.

4

And now, the PR has been merged and the documentation has been updated. Gotta love the responsiveness of the Kirby team <3.