Question

I am working in a grails application, I have many domains in the applications, more than 50! The error message generated are default, I have the following in my message.properties file

default.blank.message=Field "{0}" cannot be blank.

An example of my one of the domain class is as follows:

class Person {

    String firstName;
    String lastName;
    String middleName;
    Date dob;
    String gender;
    String religion;
    String nationality;
    String maritalStatus;

    Zone permAddZone;
    District permAddDistrict;
    String permAddVDC;
}

And so on, so when I leave a field, for example ‘maritalStatus’ the following error message shows up, ‘Field “maritialStatus” cannot be blank.’. I also added the following to my message.properties file

person.maritialStatus=Maritial Status

But still I am getting the ‘Field “maritialStatus” cannot be blank.’ message. I also tried using I18n Templates Plugin, but as I have a lot of domain classes, modifying error message for all of them would be time consuming. So, what choices do I have or what am I doing wrong. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

In order to override the field label you need to override the key:

<package>.<domainclass>.<fieldname>.label

So in your case, try:

<package>.Person.martialStatus.label=Label