Display names for property names

[rohanranade]

Hi all,

I have a domain class Person with firstName and lastName properties (and many more). Both should not allow nulls. In the GSP, I want to use the g:renderErrors tag to render validation errors. I want to have a message whenever a non-null field is not specified by the user. I notice that there is a way to set the default message in the messages.properties file -> default.null.message.

However, if I use this message, the rendering of the error in the UI tells the user the propertyname - e.g. "firstName cannot be null". I don't want the property names to be visible to the user of the app as 'firstName' , I would rather like the error messages to say - "First Name cannot be null". Is there a way to do this without repetitive custom message properties for each field?

Thanks and Regards,
Rohan

[Ian Roberts]

On 25/07/2012 09:44, rohanranade wrote:
> However, if I use this message, the rendering of the error in the UI tells
> the user the propertyname - e.g. "firstName cannot be null". I don't want
> the property names to be visible to the user of the app as 'firstName' , I
> would rather like the error messages to say - "First Name cannot be null".
> Is there a way to do this without repetitive custom message properties for
> each field?

If you define the message code

person.firstName.label=First Name

in your messages.properties then it will use that instead of the default
for both the field label in scaffolded views and the property name in
validation messages.  You could then change your default.null.message to
something without the square brackets.

Ian

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[rohanranade]

That did the trick. Thank you!

Rohan