Laravel Version
13.x
PHP Version
8.3.0
Database Driver & Version
No response
Description
The recent enum-support pass across the framework's manager classes
(#59614 base Manager::driver(), #59637 CacheManager, #59645 MailManager,
#59646 AuthManager, #59389 QueueManager, #59391 LogManager, #59420
BroadcastManager) made it natural to use enums as driver/connection/store
identifiers everywhere — except for the application's locale.
Notification::locale() already accepts a UnitEnum (#55922), but the
underlying primitives still require a string:
Illuminate\Foundation\Application::setLocale($locale)
Illuminate\Foundation\Application::setFallbackLocale($fallbackLocale)
Illuminate\Foundation\Application::isLocale($locale)
Illuminate\Translation\Translator::setLocale($locale)
Illuminate\Translation\Translator::setFallback($fallback)
This forces users with a typed Locale enum to call ->value everywhere:
enum Locale: string {
case English = 'en';
case Japanese = 'ja';
case Korean = 'ko';
}
App::setLocale(Locale::Japanese->value); // current — clunky
App::setLocale(Locale::Japanese); // proposed — consistent with Notification::locale()
### Steps To Reproduce
`Application::setLocale`, `Application::setFallbackLocale`,
`Application::isLocale`, `Translator::setLocale`, `Translator::setFallback`
silently accept enum objects (or TypeError, depending on PHP version) and
store them as objects in config, breaking string comparisons throughout
the request lifecycle.
Laravel Version
13.x
PHP Version
8.3.0
Database Driver & Version
No response
Description
The recent enum-support pass across the framework's manager classes
(#59614 base
Manager::driver(), #59637 CacheManager, #59645 MailManager,#59646 AuthManager, #59389 QueueManager, #59391 LogManager, #59420
BroadcastManager) made it natural to use enums as driver/connection/store
identifiers everywhere — except for the application's locale.
Notification::locale()already accepts aUnitEnum(#55922), but theunderlying primitives still require a string:
Illuminate\Foundation\Application::setLocale($locale)Illuminate\Foundation\Application::setFallbackLocale($fallbackLocale)Illuminate\Foundation\Application::isLocale($locale)Illuminate\Translation\Translator::setLocale($locale)Illuminate\Translation\Translator::setFallback($fallback)This forces users with a typed
Localeenum to call->valueeverywhere: