An entity metadata wrapper on a field collection item doesn't work correctly when used with entity translation. As an example see this test code that was recently replaced:

     $fc_entity = entity_create('field_collection_item', $values);
     $fc_entity->setHostEntity('node', $node, $translation_langcode);

-    $fc_wrapper = entity_metadata_wrapper('field_collection_item', $fc_entity);
-    $fc_wrapper->{$this->field_untrans_name}->set(self::UNTRANS_FIELD_DE_MOD);
-    $fc_wrapper->{$this->field_trans_name}->set(self::TRANS_FIELD_DE_MOD);
-    $fc_wrapper->save(TRUE);

+    $fc_entity->{$this->field_untrans_name}[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'] = self::UNTRANS_FIELD_DE_MOD;
+    $fc_entity->{$this->field_trans_name}['de'][0]['value'] = self::TRANS_FIELD_DE_MOD;
+    $fc_entity->save(TRUE);

The problem with the original version is that the value in field_trans_name would be saved in the default language 'en' instead of in $translation_langcode like it should be.

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jmuzz created an issue.

james.williams’s picture

james.williams
Location Coventry, UK
commented

Is this just because the following is needed to tell the EMW what language to operate in?

$fc_wrapper->language('de');

i.e. the language needs to be explicitly set, as EMW doesn't infer the appropriate one to use.

I may be missing something bigger, that's just my initial instinctual guess, based on plenty of experience of related EMW+language issues.