In Bean Validation, if you want to include Field Name in Error Message, it cannot be output from LocalValidatorFactoryBean.

Overview

Note that if you use Bean Validation to check the input and output an error message, you need to be careful if you want to include the field name in the content.

Execution environment

• java SE - 1.8
• org.springframework - 3.1.1.RELEASE
• javax.validation - 2.0.1.Final
• org.hibernate.validator - 6.0.13.Final

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Example

If you want to output the following message to the following form

UserForm.java

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.validation.constraints.Max;
import javax.validation.constraints.Min;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import javax.validation.constraints.Size;

public class UserForm implements Serializable {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	@NotNull(message = "{userForm.name}")
	@Size(min = 1, max = 20, message = "{userForm.name}")
	private String name;
	// getter/setter omitted

"[name] is not null."

important point

--Cannot output with LocalValidatorFactoryBean

UserControl.java

import javax.validation.Validator;

@Resource
private Validator validator;

//Actual processing part
Set<ConstraintViolation<UserForm>> violations = validator.validate(form);
if (!violations.isEmpty()) {
	for (ConstraintViolation<UserForm> v : violations) {
		log.info(v.getMessage());
	}
}

application-context.xml

<bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean" />

ValidationMessage.properties

userForm.name={0} is not null.

I thought that {0} would be replaced with the field name, but the actual output result is output without being replaced as shown below.

{0} is not null.

Reason

--Field name replacement seems to be realized by data binding provided by Spring

That is, use @Validated as follows

UserControl.java

@RequestMapping(value = "create", method = RequestMethod.POST, params = "confirm")
public String createConfirm(@Validated UserForm form, BindingResult result) {
	if (result.hasErrors()) {
		return "user/createForm";
	}
	return "user/createConfirm";
}

Or use Smart Validator

UserControl.java

import org.springframework.validation.SmartValidator;

@Resource //Smart Validator<mvc:annotation-driven>Bean definition is not required because it can be used if is set.
private SmartValidator smartValidator;

@RequestMapping(value = "create", method = RequestMethod.POST, params = "confirm")
public String createConfirm(UserForm form, BindingResult result) {
	smartValidator.validate(form, result);
	if (result.hasErrors()) {
		return "user/createForm";
	}
	return "user/createConfirm";
}

Summary

--LocalValidatorFactoryBean cannot output the error message including the field name. --Because it is realized by Spring data binding --Use @Validated or SmartValidator to achieve

• If you absolutely have to be a LocalValidatorFactoryBeand, it seems that you have to define the message individually.