Cannot get Hibernate Validator to work with Spring MessageSource

Question

I am trying to configure Hibernate Validator to use messages from MessageSource. I have the following setting in messages-context.xml:

<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basenames">
        <list>
            <value>WEB-INF/messages/messages</value>
            <value>WEB-INF/messages/exceptions</value>
            <value>WEB-INF/messages/fields</value>
            <value>WEB-INF/messages/buttons</value>
            <value>WEB-INF/messages/validation_errors</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="validator"
    class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean">
    <property name="validationMessageSource" ref="messageSource" />
</bean>

<bean id="localeChangeInterceptor"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor">
    <property name="paramName" value="lang" />
</bean>

<bean id="localeResolver"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver">
    <property name="defaultLocale" value="en_GB" />
</bean>

I tried various approaches to how to pass the message key to the hibernate validator (both with closing and without {}, as well as without specifying a user key - simply using the default value:

@NotEmpty(message="validation.required.field")
@Length(max=255, message="{validation.too.long}")
private String firstName;

@NotEmpty(message="{validation.required.field}")
@Length(max=255, message="{validation.too.long}")
private String lastName;

@NotNull
@Past(message="{validation.must.be.past}")
private Date dateOfBirth;

@NotEmpty(message="{validation.required.field}")
@Length(max=255, message="{validation.too.long}")
private String email;

My validation_errors_en_GB.propertieslooks like this:

validation.required.field=this is a required field
validation.too.long=this field can only take {0} characters
validation.must.be.past=this date has to be in the past 
javax.validation.constraints.NotNull.message=Custom message

However, when blank fields are checked, the following messages are displayed:

First name      validation.required.field
Last name       {validation.required.field}
Date of birth   may not be null
Email           {validation.required.field}

For some reason, the message key is always used - the actual message is never viewed. Any idea where I'm wrong?

Thank,

Russell

Answer 1

, , Spring Validator, @Controller ( !)

, XML-, - :

<bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean">
    <property name="messageInterpolator" ref="messageSource"/>
</bean>

<mvc:annotation-driven validator="validator"/> 

javaconfig, - :

@EnableWebMVC
@Configuration
public MyWebAppContext extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

@Bean
public LocalValidatorFactoryBean validator() {
    LocalValidatorFactoryBean validatorFactoryBean = new LocalValidatorFactoryBean();
    validatorFactoryBean.setValidationMessageSource(messageSource);
    return validatorFactoryBean;
}

@Override
public Validator getValidator() {
    return validator();
}

(. Spring -MVC-)

Answer 2

, Hibernate .

, , "ValidationMessages.properties" pathpath. ( validation_errors_en_GB.properties)

, (message="{validation.too.long}")

Answer 3

Hibernate Validator . :

LocaleContextHolder.setLocale();