Fields not translated when using QuerySet .values() method

[atodorov]

Inside Kiwi TCMS we're using the following pattern:

list(
    TestExecutionStatus.objects.filter(**query).values("id", "name", "weight", "icon", "color")
)

This returns the name field untranslated. From my limited experimentation I can tell that vinaigrette VinaigretteDescriptor doesn't seem to be triggered. (At least it doesn't reach the gettext part).

OTOH if I modify my code to look like:

result = []
for status in TestExecutionStatus.objects.filter(**query).distinct():
    result.append({
       "id": status.pk,
       "name": status.name,
       "weight": status.weight,
       "icon": status.icon,
       "color": status.color,
   })

then the values for name field are returned translated.

[atodorov]

@jordiecometrica, @rory-geoghegan-ecometrica ping. Can you provide some pointers here?

I can work on a PR to implement this but I don't want to rediscover the hot water before I can figure out if a solution is possible.