Is there a single rule to cope with single quotes in writing Spring Resource Boundle?

Question

Spring\'s ResourceBundleMessageSource uses MessageFormat for replacing placeholders ({0}) inside messages.

MessageFormat

Answer 1

ResourceBundleMessageSource provides a flag called alwaysUseMessageFormat that can be used if MessageFormat should be applied to all messages.

The single rule is...

Configure one time for all your resource boundle with:

<bean 
    id="messageSource" 
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="alwaysUseMessageFormat" value="true" />
    ...
</bean>

and your translator have to be aware of a single rule in writing and maintaining resource bundle:

• write always ('')

See also Why Spring MessageSource arguments are not filled correctly in some locales.