Best practice for storage and retrieval of error messages.
- by ferrari fan
What is a best practice for storing user messages in a configuration file and then retrieving them for certain events throughout an application?
I was thinking of having 1 single configuration file with entries such as
REQUIRED_FIELD = {0} is a required field
INVALID_FORMAT = The format for {0} is {1}
etc. and then calling them from a class that would be something like this
public class UIMessages {
public static final String REQUIRED_FIELD = "REQUIRED_FIELD";
public static final String INVALID_FORMAT = "INVALID_FORMAT";
static {
// load configuration file into a "Properties" object
}
public static String getMessage(String messageKey) {
//
return properties.getProperty(messageKey);
}
}
Is this the right way to approach this problem or is there some de-facto standard already in place?
