how to use messages with freemarker in spring mvc?

Question

In a .jsp I would use:

<fmt:message key="welcome.title"/>

to display a message from my messages.properties file.

How would I do this with freemarker ?

Answer 1

Import Spring Macro

<#import "/spring.ftl" as spring/>

Then

<@spring.message "yourMessageKeyGoesHere"/>

But you need to register ResourceBundleMessageSource

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="messages"/>
</bean>

Keep in mind MessageSource must be called messageSource

Answer 2

@Blankman

No, you don't have to import this manually in each template. You can set an auto_import property in your freemarker settings as showed below.

<bean id="freemarkerConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer">
   ...

   <property name="freemarkerSettings">
        <props>
            <prop key="auto_import">spring.ftl as spring</prop>
        </props>
   </property>
</bean>