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Rachel
Rachel

Reputation: 103417

Cannot locate message in MessageSource

I am trying to get one simple spring application running but getting following exception:

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: No message found under code 'label.firstname' for locale 'en_US'.

My contact.jsp file:

<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" prefix="c" %>
<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>

<html>
<head>
    <title>Spring 3 MVC Series - Contact Manager | viralpatel.net</title>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Contact Manager</h2>

<form:form method="post" action="add.html" commandName="contact">

    <table>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="firstname"><spring:message code="label.firstname"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="firstname" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="lastname"><spring:message code="label.lastname"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="lastname" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="email"><spring:message code="label.email"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="email" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="telephone"><spring:message code="label.telephone"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="telephone" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
            <input type="submit" value="<spring:message code="label.addcontact"/>"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form:form>

<h3>Contacts</h3>
<c:if  test="${!empty contactList}">
<table class="data">
<tr>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Email</th>
    <th>Telephone</th>
    <th>&nbsp;</th>
</tr>
<c:forEach items="${contactList}" var="contact">
    <tr>
        <td>${contact.lastname}, ${contact.firstname} </td>
        <td>${contact.email}</td>
        <td>${contact.telephone}</td>
        <td><a href="delete/${contact.id}">delete</a></td>
    </tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
</c:if>

</body>
</html>

My spring-servlet.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config />
    <context:component-scan base-package="net.viralpatel.contact" />

    <bean id="jspViewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass"
            value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="messageSource"
        class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basename" value="WEB-INF/messages" />
        <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
    </bean>



    <bean id="propertyConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
        p:location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties" />

<!--    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" -->
<!--        destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" -->
<!--        p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}" p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" /> -->

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
        destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
        p:url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ContactManager" p:username="root" p:password="12345" />


    <bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="configLocation">
            <value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
        </property>
        <property name="configurationClass">
            <value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven />
    <bean id="transactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>

</beans>

I am hitting url:

localhost:8080/MavenWeb-0.0.1/index

and my server stacktrace:

SEVERE: No message found under code 'label.firstname' for locale 'en_US'.
javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: No message found under code 'label.firstname' for locale 'en_US'.
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.MessageTag.doStartTagInternal(MessageTag.java:184)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.RequestContextAwareTag.doStartTag(RequestContextAwareTag.java:79)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspx_meth_spring_005fmessage_005f0(contact_jsp.java:252)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005flabel_005f0(contact_jsp.java:219)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005fform_005f0(contact_jsp.java:138)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspService(contact_jsp.java:91)
    at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:419)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:389)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:333)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:684)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:471)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:402)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:329)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1047)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:817)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:719)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:549)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:240)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:164)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:403)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:301)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:162)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:309)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Steps to get issue resolved:

  1. Place messages_en.properties files in src/main/resource folder only
  2. Make sure name of file is correct as messages_en.properties and not message_en.properties
  3. When you do maven build using mvn clean install messages_en.properties file will appear in target/projectname/WEB-INF/classes/messages.properties
  4. Check in spring-servlet.xml(name may vary) and use classpath:messages as basename in messageSource

and it should work as it resolved my issue. 

<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>

Upvotes: 10

Views: 26590

Answers (7)

Ahmed
Ahmed

Reputation: 291

I had the same problem, the solution was:

  1. Place the messages.properties file in the source folder src/main/resources

  2. Define the Bean as follow: 

    <bean id="messageSource"
         class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />

You see that I put in property the same name of the file messages.properties without .properties

that was the problem ^^

Upvotes: 2

DevDio
DevDio

Reputation: 1564

To anybody else who will face the issue.

Besides all the answers, make sure you let the .jsp file be processed by Spring Framework. If .jsp is accessed directly, spring tags won't be processed, and you'll see the exact same error. Simply put, expose the .jsps through the controllers.

Upvotes: 0

AchillesVan
AchillesVan

Reputation: 4356

Better late than never. I had the same problem. Here is how I solved it. My file name was :

messages_fr.properties

for france because its a french Spring Tutotrial. But, i reside in The Nederlands. So i tried to rename it to

messages_nl.properties

and it works. Not sure if this is a long term workaround but we ll see.

Upvotes: 0

gmansoor
gmansoor

Reputation: 509

An important consideration is that, in order to auto reload, properties file should not be in the classpath. Servers usually cache the properties so if its in the classes folder, its not really effective. Per Spring docs, in case of classpath:messages, cachedSeconds other than -1 will not have any effect.

Upvotes: 1

Indrajit Das
Indrajit Das

Reputation: 96

You have to add the "resources" folder to "Web Deployment Assembly". After that replace "classpath:messages" to only "messages". The last change you need to make is clean your projects.

example:

<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="messages" />
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"/>
</bean>

That will suffice. :)

Upvotes: 1

user2333869
user2333869

Reputation: 1

I had the same problem but I simply left it as messages_properties and it solved the issue

Upvotes: -5

matt b
matt b

Reputation: 139931

Your MessageSource bean definition is a little confusing. Typically the basename is the prefix of the filename (minus .properties) you want to use for the message resolution, which Spring and the JDK ResourceBundle class will append the language and/or country abbreviation to.

<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="WEB-INF/message_en.properties/Message" />
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>

For example, if you intended to have resource files like messages.properties, messages_es.properties, messages_de.properties you would specify a basename of WEB-INF/messages.

What is the actual name of your message bundle file(s)?

Upvotes: 12

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