Spring: Setting up locale

localeResolver.setLocale works fine for me, try something like this:

applicationContext

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource"
    p:basename="messages/messages" p:fallbackToSystemLocale="false" />

<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver" />

my_page.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring" %>
<html>
    <body>
        <p><spring:message code="my.message"/></p>  
    </body>
</html>

\src\main\resources\messages\messages.properties

my.message=Message (default language)

\src\main\resources\messages\messages_en.properties

my.message=Message in English

\src\main\resources\messages\messages_fr.properties

my.message=Message in French

Controller

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class SampleController {
    @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String welcome(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        LocaleResolver localeResolver = RequestContextUtils.getLocaleResolver(request);
        localeResolver.setLocale(request, response, StringUtils.parseLocaleString("fr"));
        return "my_page";
    }
}

With this code I get "Message in French", if I change "fr" to "en" I get "Message in English", and without setLocale call I get "Message (default language)". Changing StringUtils.parseLocaleString("fr") to new Locale("fr") gives the same results.


I would recommend try to set up default locale as:

<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver">
     <property name="defaultLocale" value="fr_FR" />
 </bean>

Some helpful info is in blog post Configuring locale switching with Spring MVC 3.

Tags:

Internationalization

Localization

Spring

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