java.lang.IllegalStateException: Properties file not found

[MartyJones]

I am getting the following exception when I try to create a controller using scaffolding:

roo> controller scaffold --name com.modelsoftware.emanage.controllers.ProjectController --entity com.modelsoftware.emanage.domain.Project
Created SRC_MAIN_JAVA\com\modelsoftware\emanage\controllers\ProjectController.java
Managed SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\web.xml
Managed ROOT\pom.xml
Created SRC_MAIN_JAVA\com\modelsoftware\emanage\controllers\ProjectController_Roo_Controller.aj
Created SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project
Created SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project\list.jspx
Created SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project\show.jspx
Created SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project\create.jspx
Managed SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\i18n\messages.properties
Managed SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\i18n\messages_de.properties
Undo manage SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\i18n\messages_de.properties
Undo manage SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\i18n\messages.properties
Undo create SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project\create.jspx
Undo create SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project\show.jspx
Undo create SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project\list.jspx
Undo create SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\views\project
Undo create SRC_MAIN_JAVA\com\modelsoftware\emanage\controllers\ProjectController_Roo_Controller.aj
Undo manage ROOT\pom.xml
Undo manage SRC_MAIN_WEBAPP\WEB-INF\web.xml
Undo create SRC_MAIN_JAVA\com\modelsoftware\emanage\controllers\ProjectController.java
Properties file not found
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Properties file not found
    at org.springframework.roo.addon.web.menu.MenuOperations.setProperty(MenuOperations.java:328)
    at org.springframework.roo.addon.web.menu.MenuOperations.addMenuItem(MenuOperations.java:106)
    at org.springframework.roo.addon.mvc.jsp.JspMetadataListener.get(JspMetadataListener.java:177)
    at org.springframework.roo.addon.mvc.jsp.JspMetadataListener.notify(JspMetadataListener.java:324)
    at org.springframework.roo.metadata.internal.DefaultMetadataService.notify(DefaultMetadataService.java:148)
    at org.springframework.roo.metadata.internal.DefaultMetadataDependencyRegistry.notifyDownstream(DefaultMetadataDependencyRegistry.java:255)
    at org.springframework.roo.classpath.itd.AbstractItdMetadataProvider.notify(AbstractItdMetadataProvider.java:101)
    at org.springframework.roo.metadata.internal.DefaultMetadataService.notify(DefaultMetadataService.java:148)
    at org.springframework.roo.metadata.internal.DefaultMetadataDependencyRegistry.notifyDownstream(DefaultMetadataDependencyRegistry.java:255)
    at org.springframework.roo.classpath.javaparser.JavaParserMetadataProvider.onFileEvent(JavaParserMetadataProvider.java:131)
    at org.springframework.roo.file.monitor.polling.PollingFileMonitorService.publish(PollingFileMonitorService.java:324)
    at org.springframework.roo.file.monitor.polling.PollingFileMonitorService.scanNotified(PollingFileMonitorService.java:210)
    at org.springframework.roo.process.manager.internal.DefaultProcessManager.doTransactionally(DefaultProcessManager.java:137)
    at org.springframework.roo.process.manager.internal.DefaultProcessManager.execute(DefaultProcessManager.java:94)
    at org.springframework.roo.bootstrap.ProcessManagerHostedExecutionStrategy.execute(ProcessManagerHostedExecutionStrategy.java:31)
    at org.springframework.roo.shell.internal.AbstractShell.executeCommand(AbstractShell.java:124)
    at org.springframework.roo.shell.jline.JLineShell.promptLoop(JLineShell.java:136)
    at org.springframework.roo.bootstrap.Bootstrap.run(Bootstrap.java:113)
    at org.springframework.roo.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:53)

FYI: I am running RC4 from trunc.

[MartyJones]

I took and built the application again and I noticed this time that the message.properties files were generated and the process completed so I guess something hosed up when generating the message.properties files.

[smoradi]

I had a same problem after creating my project with Roo1.0.0.RC2 and open it with Roo1.0.0.RC4 , what I have done for solving this was copying new properties (messages_[es,it,sv].properties) in i18n folder of project.

Another thing is properties files will get different line order after generation. (it looks like random line order)
It would be nice if we could expect some format like below:

#errors 
error.dataaccessfailure.title=Data access failure
error.uncaughtexception.title=Internal Error
....

#lables 
label.employee=Employee
...

#customs by developers (Please don't modify this part!;) )
label.user.email=Email
...

#others or new, after here 
...

Cheers, Sid

[Ben Alex]

I'm not sure if this is a requirement of writing back the property files, but if you could log an enhancement request at http://jira.springframework.org/browse/ROO we can have a look.

Cheers
Ben

[smoradi]

I've created a new Improvement in Jira http://jira.springframework.org/browse/ROO-412
Thanks, Sid