Modifying Hibernate validator msgs

[trippccn]

1) Is there a way to override Hibernates DefaultValidatorMessages.properties file so that I can have custom messages without actually changing the properties file inside hibernate-annotations.jar?

2) The @NotNull validator only checks for Null but not empty strings (eg. empty form field)... obviously this is intended, but is there a way to check for empty strings? Should I use @Pattern?

Thanks,
Chad

[patrick_ibg]

On #2, use a @Length (min = 1) validator.

[epbernard]

Hi,
For #1, read theHibernate Annotations reference documentation, chapter 3.1.3
Basically you can create a ValidatorMessages.properties or ValidatorMessages_fr.properties and put it in your classpath root

patrick is right @Length will be faster than a regexp

[trippccn]

Hey guys thanks for your replies.

Cool I'll use length instead. The only reason I didn't do that was so that I wouldn't have to override the length message which I feel should be diff from an empty value... no biggie.

Ya I read the hibernate docs, and it seems simple, but I couldn't get the ValidatorMessages.properties to work. They were in my classpath at compile time, is there anything else I need to do? The docs don't give any examples.

Thanks again,
Chad

[ohadpinchevsky]

"TrippCCN" wrote:

Hey guys thanks for your replies.

Cool I'll use length instead. The only reason I didn't do that was so that I wouldn't have to override the length message which I feel should be diff from an empty value... no biggie.

Ya I read the hibernate docs, and it seems simple, but I couldn't get the ValidatorMessages.properties to work. They were in my classpath at compile time, is there anything else I need to do? The docs don't give any examples.

Thanks again,
Chad

Hi Chad.

I have the same problem with ValidatorMessages.properties, did you find out what it was?

10x,
Ohad

[dahm]

Hi,

I had the same problems using my ValidatorMessages.properties
I put it in anywhere in my JAR and EJB3 archives, but it didn't work.
It seems to be a classloader problem. If you modify the
DefaultValidatorMessages.properties file in the hibernate-annotations.jar
in the ejb3.deployer folder it works. Yet this is ugly and not feasible
for deployment.

As a quick workaround I put my ValidatorMessages.properties in
separate JAR and copied that into the ejb3.deploy folder. However,
you'll have to restart the server.

I guess this needs to be fixed by the Hibernate guys...?

Cheers
Markus

P.S. I'm using SEAM

[epbernard]

I did have a bug regarding the way ValidatorMessages was loaded. This will be fixed in the next release.

[jcelano]

has this been fixed? I am noticing the same issue using Seam 2.0 GA with Jboss 4.2

[pmuir]

Yes. Start a new topic with your issue.