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Spring – How to access MessageSource in bean (MessageSourceAware)

In last tutorial, you are able to get the MessageSource via ApplicationContext. But for a bean to get the MessageSource, you have to implement the MessageSourceAware interface.

Example

A CustomerService class, implement the MessageSourceAware interface, has a setter method to set the MessageSource property.

During Spring container initialization, if any class which implements the MessageSourceAware interface, Spring will automatically inject the MessageSource into the class via setMessageSource(MessageSource messageSource) setter method.

package com.mkyong.customer.services;

import java.util.Locale;

import org.springframework.context.MessageSource;
import org.springframework.context.MessageSourceAware;

public class CustomerService implements MessageSourceAware
{
	private MessageSource messageSource;
	
	public void setMessageSource(MessageSource messageSource) {
		this.messageSource = messageSource;
	}
	
	public void printMessage(){
		String name = messageSource.getMessage("customer.name", 
    			new Object[] { 28, "https://mkyong.com" }, Locale.US);

    	System.out.println("Customer name (English) : " + name);
    	
    	String namechinese = messageSource.getMessage("customer.name", 
    			new Object[] { 28, "https://mkyong.com" }, 
                        Locale.SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE);

    	System.out.println("Customer name (Chinese) : " + namechinese);
	}
	
}

Run it


package com.mkyong.common;
 
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
 
public class App 
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
    	ApplicationContext context = 
    		new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
			    new String[] {"locale.xml","Spring-Customer.xml"});
 
    	CustomerService cust = (CustomerService)context.getBean("customerService");
    	cust.printMessage();
    }
}
All the properties files and XML files are reuse from the last ResourceBundleMessageSource tutorial.

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Adam
9 years ago

What’s the difference between using Message Source and using ApplicationContext.getMessage()?
Seems to call the same methods behind the scene?

Junaid
10 years ago

This saved my day. Thank you!!!

Joel Wilson
11 years ago

Great article. I’m trying to figure out how to dynamically load a messageSource into a view as my Entity and Command Objects don’t always represent exactly the same type of information. They are rather free form, so I need to assign those messageSources at run-time from different locations on the classpath or filesystem. Or at the very least, cause the ResourceBundleMessageSource to scan a tree with wildcards to load all of the resource bundles without knowing their specific filenames.

Yochannah Yehudi
10 years ago
Reply to  Joel Wilson

Did you ever get a resolution for this? I’m in a similar boat.

Ravi Kota
13 years ago

Could you please explain, how CustomerService is able to refer MessageSource, as there is no “ref” element while defining the dependencies for CustomerService in the configuration file?