Unable to see the form validation error messages from resource bundle JSR 303

[chakinam]

Hello Team,


I am working on Simple Spring Web flow 2.3.1 application.. In my application I wanted to show the submitted form validated errror messages from a configured resource bundle.. But the error messages are coming from default JSR 303 validations...
JSP Page Code:

<form:form commandName="authenticatedUser" method="POST">
        <form:errors path="*" cssClass="errorblock" element="div" />
	User Name:<form:input path="userName" />  <form:errors path="userName" cssClass="error" />	
	Password:<form:password path="passWord" />  <form:errors path="passWord" cssClass="error" />
	<input type="submit" name="_eventId_verifyLogin" value="Login" />
</form:form>

messages.properties file placed class path

NotEmpty.authenticatedUser.userName = User Name should not be empty
NotNull.authenticatedUser.userName = User Name should be not be null
Pattern.authenticatedUser.userName = User Name should be Alpha Characters only
Size.authenticatedUser.userName = User Name should be minimum 2 characters

NotEmpty.authenticatedUser.passWord = Password should not be empty
NotNull.authenticatedUser.passWord = Password should be not be null
Size.authenticatedUser.passWord = Password should be minimum  6 characters
Pattern.authenticatedUser.passWord = Password should not contain spaces

Messages bean configuration:

<bean class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource"
		id="messageSource">
		<property name="basename" value="messages" />
	</bean>

Bean class:

public class AuthenticatedUser implements Serializable{
	
	
	/**
	 * Stores the userName
	 */
	@NotEmpty
	@NotNull
	@Pattern(regexp = "[a-z-A-Z]*")
	@Size(min=1)
	private String userName =null;
	
	@NotEmpty
	@NotNull
	@Size(min=4)
	@Pattern(regexp = "[a-z-A-Z-0-9]*")
	private String passWord = null;


              //get and set methods are included

}

Flow configuration

<flow...>
	<var name="authenticatedUser" class="com....AuthenticatedUser" />
	<view-state id="login" model="authenticatedUser">
		<transition on="verifyLogin" to="confirmLogin" validate="true"
			bind="true" >
			
		</transition>
	</view-state>

	<action-state id="confirmLogin">
		<evaluate expression="authenticationService.authenticateUser(authenticatedUser)" />
		<transition on="success" to="balances" />
		<transition on="error" to="login" />
		<transition on-exception="com......AuthenticationFailedException"
			to="login" />
	</action-state>
        .....
</flow>

Flow Registry configuration

	<bean class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerMapping">
		<property name="flowRegistry" ref="flowRegistry" />
		<property name="order" value="0" />
	</bean>

	<bean class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerAdapter">
		<property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor" />
	</bean>

	<flow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry"
		flow-builder-services="flowBuilderServices" base-path="classpath:/flows/">
				<flow:flow-location-pattern  value="**/*.xml"/>
	</flow:flow-registry>

	<flow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor" flow-registry="flowRegistry" >
		<!-- <flow:flow-execution-attributes>
			<flow:redirect-in-same-state value="false"/>
		</flow:flow-execution-attributes> -->
	</flow:flow-executor>

	<flow:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices"
		view-factory-creator="mvcViewFactoryCreator" development="true" validator="validator"/>

	<bean id="mvcViewFactoryCreator"
		class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.builder.MvcViewFactoryCreator">
		<property name="viewResolvers" ref="viewResolver" />
	</bean>
	<bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean">
		<property name="ValidationMessageSource" ref="messageSource"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="viewResolver"
		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
		<property name="prefix">
			<value>/views/</value>
		</property>
		<property name="suffix">
			<value>.jsp</value>
		</property>
	</bean>

I am getting the default messages but not the configured messages in resource bundle... Please let me know if any one knows the answer for this issue...

Thanks in Advance

[chakinam]

After changing the messages.properties like below then I am able to see the configured error messages..

authenticatedUser.userName.NotEmpty = 
UserName should not be empty
authenticatedUser.userName.NotNull = 
UserName shouldnot be null
authenticatedUser.userName.Pattern = 
UserName should be AlphaCharacters only
authenticatedUser.userName.Size = 
UserName should be minimum 2 characters
authenticatedUser.passWord.NotEmpty = 
Password should not be empty
authenticatedUser.passWord.NotNull =  
Password should not be null
authenticatedUser.passWord.Size = 
Password should be minimum 6 characters
authenticatedUser.passWord.Pattern = Password should not contain spaces

Previously I have used the NotEmpty.authenticatedUser.userName but after changing this to authenticatedUser.userName.NotEmpty then we are able to see the configured error messages in resource bundle... I am not sure what the difference between Spring MVC and Webflow.. but with Webflow I am able to see the error messages with the above change.

Thanks,
Raghunath

[learnjavaandoracle]

Do you know why this worked by now ?