12.0p: Validation message shown in German and English

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

please see this sample in Locale DE (v12.0p_2019-11-02) and in English or French.

If you click "Validate" in the German version, the error message is displayed in German and English for all three fields (tested Chrome 70 and IE Edge). This does not happen in the other languages.



Best regards
Blama

[Blama]

Sorry, the French link is wrong. With the correct one, it also happens in French.

[Isomorphic]

Thanks for the notification. We see the problem and have a developer looking into it

Regards
Isomorphic Software

[Isomorphic]

We covered this with your team just days ago. Server-side validation error messages are not automatically localized - you need to localize them.

If you make the server-side error message for your required validator match the client-side one, the duplicate message will not be shown.

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

understood. Of course we could rewrite all required="true" as

            <validators>
                <validator type="required">
                    <errorMessage><fmt:message key="requiredErrMsg" /></errorMessage>
                </validator>
            </validators>

but this is a lot of tedious work and bloats the .ds.xmls with boilerplate code.
IMHO it would be a good enhancement, if the framework uses the language information it gets.
We already provide the selected language at start via

RPCManager.setActionURL(RPCManager.getActionURL() + "?locale=" + "<selectedLanguage>";

so it could get the requested language from there or from the HttpServletRequest.

Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

Yes, we recognize the possibility of an enhancement here, but it's not a trivial one: many of the error messages for built-in validators are templates that involve variable substitution, so there would need to be a server-side system for doing that. Further, the relationship between the validators and the i18n constants is currently expressed only in client-side code, so that would need to be externalized somehow so that the server could find out which messages to use from the locale packs.

Still, if it's a large effort for you to internationalize your error messages, it would be a valid Feature Sponsorship to have this capability added.

[claudiobosticco]

Hi Isomorphic,

understood. Of course we could rewrite all required="true" as

<validators>
<validator type="required">
<errorMessage><fmt:message key="requiredErrMsg" /></errorMessage>
</validator>
</validators>

but this is a lot of tedious work and bloats the .ds.xmls with boilerplate code.
IMHO it would be a good enhancement, if the framework uses the language information it gets.
We already provide the selected language at start via

RPCManager.setActionURL(RPCManager.getActionURL() + "?locale=" + "<selectedLanguage>";

so it could get the requested language from there or from the HttpServletRequest.

Best regards
Blama

+1