[jira] Commented: (WW-2263) validation annotation message attribute required even if using key attribute

["Bob Tiernay (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Bob Tiernay commented on WW-2263:
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I agree that this is quite confusing and lead to a lot of message="".

Recommend making this this optional.

> validation annotation message attribute required even if using key attribute
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WW-2263
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2263
>             Project: Struts 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: XML Validators
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.9
>         Environment: Debian Linux
>            Reporter: chad michael davis
>             Fix For: 2.1.3
>
>
> This "bug" is about a quirky interface to validations using annotations.  In the XML, the message element can contain the text of the message in its body, or omit the body and use key attribute to name the key into the resource bundles for retrieving the message.  
> Under annotations, the message attribute is always required.  Seems like you should be able to specify a key and drop the message attribute but you can't.  To specify a key you must use the  key attribute ( note, key and message are sibling level attributes of the annotation itself; this is different from the xml ) such as follows:
> @EmailValidator(type = ValidatorType.FIELD, key="email.invalid", message="Email no good.")
> In this annotation, I still have a message specified, as a back up I guess.  But if I try to remove it altogether, the equivalent of what i do in XML with the following:
>   <field-validator type="requiredstring">
>          <message key="username.required"/>
>      </field-validator>
> Then it blows up.  i guess this isn't a bug, but it seems kind of odd, forcing the user to specify a message text that won't be used ( a default message will be provided in the form of the key string itself if the properties file is missing, right? ), and its clearly inconsistent between the XML and the annotations

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