Resolving Messages

[walterjwhite]

Hi all,

I have been having issues resolving messages for quite some time now.  In my faces-context.xml, I declared en-US as my default and only supported locale and whenever I attempt to use messages throughout the site, they seem to work sporadically.  What else am I missing?

1. set locales in faces-config.xml
2. add messages to /WEB-INF/messagesenUS.properties
3. use in xhtml pages or actions or in JSF components

Walter

[lvdberg]

Hi,

messages should be accesible on the classpath and I usually place them in the class-dir under WEBINF. Further more the application should recognize that the browser only talks enUS.

Leo

[walterjwhite]

Thanks Leo, I figured it was something simple like that.  I'm just testing that now, I'll post the results in a bit.

[walterjwhite]

Awesome - that was it.  It works great now.

Walter

[walterjwhite]

Leo, I should have posted back sooner.  Actually, it works well, but for validation, it does not work.  Instead of getting:

Email Address is not a valid email address

I get:

value is not a valid email address

What else do I need to change to make those work again?

Walter

[lvdberg]

Hi Walter,

I've you have defined for instance the following in your message file:

validator.email={0} must be a well-formed email address
person_email = eMail

And let's assume you are using the following standard Seam-way for input and validation:

 <s:decorate id="emailField" template="../layout/edit.xhtml">
     <ui:define name="label">#{messages['person_email']}</ui:define>
          <h:inputText value="#{yourBean.email}" label="#{messages['person_email']}">
                <a4j:support event="onblur" reRender="emailField" 
                           ajaxSingle="true" bypassUpdates="true" eventsQueue="inputQueue" />
          </h:inputText>
</s:decorate>

After validation (and it's not ok) the message is displayed and the label works as value for the {0} placeholder.
Because this is also coming from the message bundle the label-value gets replaced with a localized string.

Leo

[walterjwhite]

Leo,

This may be a dumb question, but you have to define your own edit layout right like this:

(this is my edit.xhtml)

|<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
                    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
                    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
                    xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib">
     <div class="field">
          <s:label styleClass="label #{invalid?'errors':''}">
               <ui:insert name="label"/>
               <s:span styleClass="required" rendered="#{required}">*</s:span>
          </s:label>
          <span class="input #{invalid?'errors':''}">
               <s:validateAll>
                    <ui:insert/>
               </s:validateAll>
          </span>
          <s:message styleClass="error errors"/>
     </div>
</ui:composition>|

<s:decorate id="firstNameDecorate" template="${decorator.editLayout}">
                              <ui:define name="label">#{messages['user.firstName']}</ui:define>
                              <h:inputText id="firstName" required="true" value="#{contactBean.firstName}" label="#{messages['user.firstName']}">
                                   <a:support event="onblur" reRender="firstNameDecorate"/>
                              </h:inputText>
                         </s:decorate>

I have user.firstName in my messages.properties.  The ${decorator.editLayout} is a property that gets replaced when I run maven.

The labels worked before I must have a wrong property specified somewhere as it was being picked up.

Walter

[lvdberg]

Hi,

If it works with a literal string, it has to do with Facelets, if its still in the code when you render, it will get confused because the ${} is the old JSF EL way

Leo

[walterjwhite]

No, it gets pulled out as soon as the resources are processed, so jetty/facelets would never see that.

Walter