Question

Two stupid questions about bean validation used in JSF:

1. How can I remove the prefix form1:userName: from the output message?

   <h:message for="userName" /> 
   

   Which gets:

   form1:userName: Please enter a valid username (5-20 characters)
   

   I‘d also like to translate the name form1:userName to User Name, it’s easy to implement such translation but I can’t find where to build the message.

2. I have a custom validator, say @CreditCard, its default message is {foo.bar.BadCreditNumber}

   @interface CreditCard {
       String message() default "{foo.bar.BadCreditNumber}";
   }
   

   And the message is defined in foo/bar/ValidationMessages.properties in classpath. Now how can I make this properties file loaded in every page?

Answer 1

Concerning 1: The error message’s format depends on the property javax.faces.validator.BeanValidator.MESSAGE which must be specified in a resource bundle of the application like this:

javax.faces.validator.BeanValidator.MESSAGE={1}: {0}

The placeholder {0} refers to the error message as created by the Bean Validation runtime, {1} refers to the component label. So if you don’t want to have the label within the message, just make sure that the placeholder {1} isn’t contained within that property value.

More information can be found in the JSF 2 spec. section 3.5.6.3.

Concerning 2: It’s as BalusC is saying, just put ValidationMessages.properties to the root of your classpath. More information can also be found in the Hibernate Validator reference guide.