Hello folks,

I am using hibernate-validator 4.1.0.

I am wondering why you
1. do not use the JSF standard message keys for e.g. the required or length validator.
and
2. do not provide a mechanism to have the field name in the error message like the standard messages do.


Furthermore I have the problem that I don't get my custom messages running. I do something like this:

The message is contained within a message resource bundle called "ValidatorMessages" that I included in my faces-config like that:


My custom message is never used. What am I doing wrong?

Btw: Using a key like {javax.faces.component.UIInput.REQUIRED} which is a standard JSF key that i had overridden does not work as well.

Thx for any advice
Cheers
Christian

Hi Christian,

I recommend that you have a closer look at the specification documents for JSR 303 (Bean Validation) and JSR 314 (JSF 2). They are well written and provide a lot of related information. Also Hibernate Validator's reference guide might be helpful for you.

To answer you questions:

1.) BV (and HV as its reference implementation) is a generic validation API which is not tied to any application layer. So using messages defined by one specific GUI framwork/API would not work. For instance you could use BV in a back-end application, where no GUI layer is around at all.
2.) Are you referring to JSF here? In this case you can have the field names in the messages by providing a message for the key "javax.faces.validator.BeanValidator.MESSAGE" in one of you JSF app's message bundles. In this message the field name can be referenced by the placeholder {1}, the actual validation message by {0}:


See the JSF 2.0 spec, section 3.5.6.3 for more information.

3.) As BV/HV is layer-agnostic it is not aware of framework-specific descriptors such as faces-config.xml. By default custom validation messages are retrieved from a bundle named ValidationMessages (see the HV reference guide), but if required you can also customize that by providing you own MessageInterpolator.

Gunnar