Validation messages with actual property names with <s:validateAll>

[infinity2heaven]

I'm wrapping my <h:form> with </s:validateAll>. And I display messages using <h:messages>

I don't have acustom validator properties file as I'm fine with the defaults. However the validation messages don't point to the property name(s) making it too generic and hard to understand. For example, let's say I have 10 properties on the page and there were 3 validations thrown buy Hibernate Validator. I get the following messages

. value is required

. value is required

. length should be 20

Ideally, I'd like

. foo value is required

. bar value is required

. foobar length should be 20

I like how validations work in Seam with minial code so far except for the above limitation. Any suggestions?

[btonez]

I haven't tried it, but you could probably set the message attribute of each Hibernate Validator annotation to say @NotNull(message = "foo value is required") public Foo foo.  But this would get verbose pretty quickly, and you said you wanted minimal code... So you could hack Hibernate Validator to do it for you :), OR even better, use <s:decorate> around each <h:inputValue>.  See about 3/4 of the way through Chapter 10 of the Seam reference docs.

[infinity2heaven]

I dont want use <s:decorate> as I have a datatable with 20 rows (Each row having 6 columns). That would be insane.

This should be tackled at the source as the validator knows which property it's validating, it's just a matter of printing the value alongside the validation message ...

Strange, no one ever encountered this?

[pmuir]

I guess you could file a feature request for this.

[btonez]

I would imagine that the easiest implementation would be to hack on Hibernate Validator so that when the @NotNull annotation is processed, the field/property name is read and prepended to the message, unless a custom message is specified.

[infinity2heaven]

Raised a Jira

[fvalente]

You can specify the message for each propertie with the attribute requiredMessage on the respective input field.

[infinity2heaven]

1) you didnt understand my question. See the Jira Link above
2) It's message (not requiredMEssage)

I dont need the validation message to be overridden, just append the property name to the existing message (as an option)