Watchdog / user message for missing entity objects

In attempting to integrate Entity Translation into the Elections module I discovered an issue that took me many hours to determine exactly what was the issue. I had thought it was my declaration but in fact it was located in the entity_translation_edit_form_info function.

Essentially, you are attempting the following:

   $entity_keys = explode('][', $entity_info['translation']['entity_translation']['edit form']);
      $key_exists = FALSE;
      $entity = drupal_array_get_nested_value($form_state, $entity_keys, $key_exists);
      if ($key_exists) {
        $info = array(
          'entity type' => $form['#entity_type'],
          'entity' => (object) $entity,
        );
      }
 

The problem being that the original developers were throwing the bundle up as post rather than election_post, which is the actual entity type name. Therefore, this always failed and the language switcher and translations never worked. So perhaps we could throw a message to the user OR to watchdog just to indicate that no object is found, because if they have turned on translation it should technically be there.