ValidationMessages.properties not picked up

[R.K.P. Pisters]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble internationalizing validation messages using GWT's own Bean Validation support.

My resource files (called ValidationMessages.properties and so on) are in my WEB-INF folder, and contain one resource:

myKey=My resource

Then I have a TestClass to validate:

class TestClass {

@NotNull(message="{myKey}")

String contents;

}

And validation is done as follows:

Validator validator = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory().getValidator();

Collection<ConstraintViolation<TestClass>> violations = validator.validate(new TestClass());

I get one constraint violation, as expected, but the violation's getMessage() method returns "{myKey}", not "My resource". Why is that?

I should note that I'm using GWT 2.4 due to dependencies that don't work yet with GWT 2.5. I know validation support is experimental in 2.4, but I'd expect this to work and suspect I'm doing something wrong.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ralf

[Jens]

Take a look at

http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/samples/validation/src/main/java/com/google/gwt/sample/validation/client/

The sample uses a custom MessageResolver that in turn uses GWT's ConstantsWithLookup i18n interface.

-- J.

[R.K.P. Pisters]

Thanks Jens, it works like a charm now.