[hibernate-dev] Message-Templates from multiple JARs

[Gunnar Morling]

Yep, I'll look into this. Probably will come back with some questions later
:-)

Gunnar


2010/2/18 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>

> OK so let's prototype that then:
>  - implement a service locator style way of declaring / finding resource
> bundles (not resource bundle files)
>  - implement a ResourceBundle aggregator that gives priority to
> ValidationMessages
>  - see how bad/good that can play with
> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-238
>
> Gunnar, can you take the lead, we are a a bit busy on other things for the
> next few weeks.
>
> PS: I'd still like to get Max's reply on my Eclipse questions though :)
>
> On 18 févr. 2010, at 02:38, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:41:12 -0300, Gunnar Morling
> > <gunnar.morling at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree with Max, I think there should be some way for packaging message
> >> bundles within components containing constraint annotations, while
> >> offering
> >> the possibility to optionally override these with custom messages if
> >> required.
> >>
> >> With respect to large-scale enterprise apps, I guess it can become quite
> >> impractical to demand, that all component teams provide one single
> >> message
> >> bundle. Also having to copy contents of message bundles from 3rd-party
> >> libs
> >> containing constraint annotations to the local bundle could get somewhat
> >> tedious.
> >>
> >> Providing a custom MessageInterpolator might be viable, nevertheless I
> >> think, such a mechanism should work out of the box.
> >
> > Well, having a simple configuration option is almost like "out of the
> box".
> > For most cases the default behavior will be good enough and for the few
> > cases
> > a simple configuration option will do the trick.
> >
> >> Not sure though, what the best solution here is. I also thought about
> >> merging the ValidationMessages.properties from different
> >> libraries/components (similar to what java.util.ServiceLoader does) into
> >> one
> >> bundle, giving the contents from the local ValidationMessages.properties
> >> precedence. That way  components could provide message texts for their
> >> constraints (name clashes are possible but actually shouldn't happen, as
> >> message keys should be fully-qualified), while offering the possibility
> >> to override these texts within the local bundle if required.
> >
> > This could be one of the custom ResourceBundleLocator strategies we have
> > been talking about.
> >
> > --Hardy
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