Adding a Custom Message

JavaServer Faces technology provides standard error messages that display on the page when conversion or validation fails. In some cases, you might need to override the standard message. For example, if a user were to enter a letter into the text field on greeting.jsp, he or she would see the following error message:

User Number: ’m’ must be a number between -2147483648 and 2147483647 Example: 9346

This is wrong because the field really only accepts values from 0 through 10.

To override this message, you add a converterMessage attribute on the inputText tag. This attribute references the custom error message:

<h:inputText id="userNo" label="User Number"
         value="#{UserNumberBean.userNumber}"
         converterMessage="#{ErrMsg.userNoConvert}">
...
</h:inputText>

The expression that converterMessage uses references the userNoConvert key of the ErrMsg resource bundle. The application architect needs to define the message in the resource bundle and configure the resource bundle. See Configuring Error Messages for more information on this.

See Referencing Error Messages for more information on referencing error messages.