Forcing the language for SPRING_SECURITY_LAST_EXCEPTION

[bengateau]

Hi all,

I am using Spring Security 2.0.4 and the following code:

%{#session.get('SPRING_SECURITY_LAST_EXCEPTION').message}

to display error on login page. I've noticed that the message is displayed in the default language of the browser (for Firefox, Tools/Options/Content/Languages). This is pretty neat if i18n is what you are after, but I want to force the message to be in English for everyone, including those whose language is set to some other. I can't find anywhere how to do it, and would appreciate if someone could help me.

I tried debugging it and have noticed that in AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilterHttp method the exception caught is BadCredentialsException which contains the foreign message string in it's detailMessage.
EDIT: After more debugging, the exception is thrown from ProviderManager.doAuthentication method, when AuthenticationProvider.authenticate method is called. For some reason I cannot step into that method (AuthenticationProvider.authenticate), when I try I go to JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke

Cheers, Ben.

[bengateau]

I think this message is in the wrong forum, it should be in Web forum. Would appreciate if admin would copy it over to the Web forum.

I found that the default locale resolver in Spring is AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver. To override it, I created my own resolver:

public class FixedLocaleResolver implements LocaleResolver {
	private Locale defaultLocale;
	
	public Locale resolveLocale(HttpServletRequest req) {
		return defaultLocale;
	}

	public void setLocale(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Locale loc) {
	}

	public Locale getDefaultLocale() {
		return defaultLocale;
	}
	public void setDefaultLocale(Locale defaultLocale) {
		this.defaultLocale = defaultLocale;
	}

And in applicationContext.xml:

<bean id="localeResolver" class="my.package.goes.here.FixedLocaleResolver">
    <property name="defaultLocale" value="en"/>
</bean>

But it's still not working. Can someone tell me, do I need to define my localeResolver somewhere else so it can be picked up by application?