thymeleaf internationalization use default text html

Question

I'm using thymeleaf with Spring Boot,

<span th:text="#{home.welcome}">Welcome Default Message</span>

When key is not found in messages.properties, I had

??home.welcome_en_US??

I dont want to translate every message in messages.properties. I would like to have "Welcome Default Message" writed in html page when translate key message is not found.

How I can do that?

Answer 1

Maybe not relevant anymore, but the following worked for me. I am running Thymeleaf 3.0.7.RELEASE.

<span th:text="${#strings.defaultString(#messages.msgOrNull('home.welcome'),'Welcome Default Message')}"/>

If message is not found, null is passed to the #strings.defaultString call which when given null parameter will return 'Welcome Default Message'.

More here http://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/tutorials/3.0/usingthymeleaf.html#strings