Hello,
In our (french language) project, we use bean validation with spring, we have different applications with a common library, we need to use ContributorValidationMessages.properties in each application in addition of a common ValidationMessages.properties.
ContributorValidationMessages mechanism works (nearly) great without configuration, our messages was resolved, but accented characters are not properly loaded. Our both ContributorValidationMessages.properties and ValidationMessages.properties are in UTF-8, no problem with accented characters in the ValidationMessages.properties.
After debug step by step the Hibernate Validation framework, I detected the loading between two properties files are different in method org.hibernate.validator.resourceloading.PlatformResourceBundleLocator.loadBundle.
We can see ValidationMessages (with false aggregate parameter) is loaded by default control in ResourceBundle.getBundle, but for ContributorValidationMessages with aggregate true, the properties is loaded by specific control org.hibernate.validator.resourceloading.PlatformResourceBundleLocator.AggregateResourceBundleControl
Technically ContributorValidationMessages are loaded by old style (before Java 9) java.util.Properties.load only compatible with ISO format, while ValidationMessages are loaded by new style (start with Java 9) java.util.PropertyResourceBundle.PropertyResourceBundle compatible with UTF-8 (default) and ISO.
I propose a fix in PR to modifiy org.hibernate.validator.resourceloading.PlatformResourceBundleLocator.AggregateResourceBundleControl
I remain at your disposal for any suggestion to improve code.
I will appreciate to contribute to the improvement of Hibernate Validation.
Best,
Hi,
Thanks for this work. An important point though is that Hibernate Validator is still compatible with JDK 8 so we cannot use JDK 9+ only APIs.
Thanks for your feedback Guillaume,
I made a particular attention to have a code perfectly compatible with java 8 and don’t use specfic API of Java 9+.
The difference will be only when you use Java 9+, you benefit of the improvement of java.util.PropertyResourceBundle.PropertyResourceBundle new implementation with UTF-8 compatibility.
So my proposal it’s an alignment to have same behaviour with ValidationMessages.properties (UTF-8 compatible with a runtime Java 9+).
And for Java 8, same behaviour as today for ContributorValidationMessages.properties
Exemple of different PropertyResourceBundle implementation in JDK between Java 8 and Java 11
(Properties.load is only ISO compatible)
Javadoc about PropertyResourceBundle default loading in UTF-8 starting from Java 9
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/PropertyResourceBundle.html