Create a new resource bundle in Grails?

Question

I'd like to create another resource bundle to organize my Grails app. Grails provides a 'messages' resource bundle and I need to create a 'myApp' resource bundle.

How can I create a new resource bundle and read its properties with the 'g:message' GSP tag?

Answer 1

You have to create a bean in grails-app/conf/spring/resources.groovy which will override the default MessageSource.

// Place your Spring DSL code here
beans = {
      messageSource(org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource) {
        basename = "classpath:grails-app/i18n/myApp"
    }
}

Note: If you need to customize Grails, the only advise I can give you is to get familiar with the Spring framework (and specifically Spring-MVC) with the following links:

• Customize Message source within Spring
• Configure beans within Grails

Answer 2

Grails (as of version 1.0.3) will add all property files found in the grails-app/i18n directory to the resource bundle automatically. No need to add them manually :)