For testing / debugging purpose, I want to show the keys from the message bundle instead of the values in my jsf application. Is that possible?
Example: My messages_en.properties has following entry:
global_today=today
example jsf page
<h:outputLabel id="myId" value="{Msgs['global_today']}"/>
Now I want to see the key in the page, "global_today" not today.
Simplest way is to rename the properties file, that way JSF wont find any key and you instead of 'today' you will see ???global_today???
If you still want to see the global_today you can do the following:
Lets say you have the following in your faces-config.xml
<resource-bundle>
<base-name>my.package.resources.MyText</base-name>
</resource-bundle>
Rename the MyText into MyTextExtender
Then in add MyTextExtender.java in the my.package.resources package
with the following content:
public class MyTextExtender extends ResourceBundle {
public MyTextExtender() {
setParent(getBundle("my.package.resources.MyText", FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()
.getViewRoot().getLocale()));
}
@Override
public Enumeration<String> getKeys() {
return parent.getKeys();
}
@Override
protected Object handleGetObject(String key) {
return key;
//The code below will try to turn the annoying ???some_key???
//into "some key" (looks better)
/*try {
return parent.getObject(key);
} catch (MissingResourceException e) {
if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(key)) {
logger.error("Missing key: " + key + " in the properties", e);
return key.replace("_", " ");
} else {
logger.error("Key was null???", e);
return "";
}
}*/
}
}
