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Override Hibernate Validator message

I try to override the default Hibernate Validator messages without success though. I am already using a resource bundle for several text which works pretty fine. The problem is with the messages of the Validator.

In detail:

I have created the following file: ValidationMessages_de.properties and placed it under \src\main\resources\translations\ValidationMessages_de.properties . The file has following resources: org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotBlank.message=Value is required. org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty.message=Value is required.

My faces-config.xml has following content:

<application>
    <locale-config>
        <default-locale>de</default-locale>
        <supported-locale>de</supported-locale>
    </locale-config>
    <resource-bundle>
        <base-name>translations.messages</base-name>
        <var>msg</var>
    </resource-bundle>
    <resource-bundle>
        <base-name>translations.ValidationMessages</base-name>
        <var>validMsgs</var>
    </resource-bundle>
    <message-bundle>
    translations.ValidationMessages
    </message-bundle>
</application>

For validation I am using the following annotations: @NotEmpty @NotBlank

I tried also following:

  1. Move the ValidationMessages_de.properties to another directory
  2. Created a ValidationMessages.properties as also a ValidationMessages_de_DE.properties

None of the above solves the problem. When validating, Hibernate gives me the default message for the German locale : darf nicht leer sein

What am I missing ?

Solution

  • Although i had configured my faces-config.xml to look in the translations for some reasons it was unable to read from the the resources.

    Once i moved the files under src\main\resources\ everything started to work.