How to standardize and organize error messages with Hibernate Validator (running under Spring framework)

Question

I'm learning Hibernate Validator. I see that I can add an error message text to any annotation.

But this seems like a bad way to handle error messages. It would be cleaner to return an error message ID and look up the message text in some resource file like a Properties file.

In this way I can later extend to other languages by swapping out the particular resource file; and the error messages are organized into one coherent location.

What's the best approach here with Hibernate Validator?

Answer 1

You might want to check this section in the manual for an approach of i18n error descriptions in Hibernate Validator.

There is another tutorial which might prove handy.

Cheers!