Resolving spring:messages in javascript for i18n internationalization

Question

I\'m attempting to internationalize some of our code. I have a page in JSPX which is using the tag to resolve strings from a messag

Answer 1

In addition to answer of @Toilal you can add a helper function to strings.jsp to do a better use of the translation array:

<%@page contentType="text/javascript" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<%@taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags"%>
var messages = new Array();

messages[""] = "";


/**
 * Tranlate a String by key, if key is not defined return the key.
 *  
 * @author Pedro Peláez , Drupal/Wordpress authors, and others
 * @param {String} key
 * @returns {String}
 */
function t(key) {
    if (messages[key]) {
        return messages[key];
    }
    return key;
}

Then when needed just use:

alert(t("menu.section.main"));