Localizing enum values in resource bundle
Solution 1:
The value which is passed through the converter is not the option label as you seem to expect, but the option value. The best practice is to not do this in the model side, but in the view side, because the model shouldn't need to be i18n aware.
As to the approach, you're basically unnecessarily overcomplicating things. Since JSF 1.2 there's a builtin EnumConverter which will kick in automatically and since JSF 2.0 you can iterate over a generic array or List in f:selectItems by the new var attribute without the need to duplicate the values over a List<SelectItem> in the model.
Here's how the bean can look like:
public class Bean {
private OrderStatus orderStatus;
private OrderStatus[] orderStatuses = OrderStatus.values();
// ...
}
And here's how the view can look like (assuming that msg refers to the <var> as you've definied in <resource-bundle> in faces-config.xml):
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{bean.orderStatus}">
<f:selectItems value="#{bean.orderStatuses}" var="orderStatus"
itemValue="#{orderStatus}" itemLabel="#{msg[orderStatus.name]}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
That's all.
Unrelated to the problem, you've typos in the enum name and message keys, it should be:
PENDING("enum.orderstatus.pending"),
CANCELLED("enum.orderstatus.cancelled");
And, more clean would be to keep the bundle keys out the enum and use enum itself as part of bundle key. E.g.
PENDING,
CANCELLED;
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{bean.orderStatus}">
<f:selectItems value="#{bean.orderStatuses}" var="orderStatus"
itemValue="#{orderStatus}" itemLabel="#{msg['enum.orderstatus.' += orderStatus]}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
enum.orderstatus.PENDING = Pending
enum.orderstatus.CANCELLED = Cancelled
Solution 2:
I have posted my solution here: Internationalization of multiple enums (translation of enum values) - but still hoping for further enhancement.
EDIT: with the help of @Joop Eggen, we have come up with a really cool solution:
EDIT again: complete and ready-to-use solution:
Make a class
public final class EnumTranslator {
public static String getMessageKey(Enum<?> e) {
return e.getClass().getSimpleName() + '.' + e.name();
}
}
Make it a custom EL function
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<facelet-taglib
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facelettaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<namespace>http://example.com/enumi18n</namespace>
<function>
<function-name>xlate</function-name>
<function-class>your.package.EnumTranslator</function-class>
<function-signature>String getMessageKey(java.lang.Enum)</function-signature>
</function>
</facelet-taglib>
Add the taglib to your web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/enumi18n.taglib.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
Have properties files enum_en.properties and enum_yourlanguage.properties like this
TransferStatus.NOT_TRANSFERRED = Not transferred
TransferStatus.TRANSFERRED = Transferred
Add the properties files as resource bundles to your faces-config.xml
<resource-bundle>
<base-name>kk.os.obj.jsf.i18n.enum</base-name>
<var>enum</var>
</resource-bundle>
Add the custom taglib to your xhtml files
<html ... xmlns:l="http://example.com/enumi18n">
And - voilà - you can now access the translated enum values in jsf:
<h:outputText value="#{enum[l:xlate(order.transferStatus)]}" />