Can't get Hibernate Validator working with Spring MessageSource

Question

I\'m trying to get Hibernate Validator setup to use messages from a Spring MessageSource. I have the following setup in my messages-context.xml:

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Answer 1

This had me stumped for a while, but the problem is that you need to register with Spring the Validator used to validate @Controller methods (thanks to this answer for that insight!)

So if you are using XML config do something along these lines:

And if you are using javaconfig, do something like this:

@EnableWebMVC
@Configuration
public MyWebAppContext extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

@Bean
public LocalValidatorFactoryBean validator() {
    LocalValidatorFactoryBean validatorFactoryBean = new LocalValidatorFactoryBean();
    validatorFactoryBean.setValidationMessageSource(messageSource);
    return validatorFactoryBean;
}

@Override
public Validator getValidator() {
    return validator();
}

(see Spring Web MVC framework documentation)