[Wicket-user] Some concern about default Application.properties message

[Ingram Chen]

I have some concern about ${input} in Applicaiton_*.properties, for example:

StringValidator.maximum='${input}' must be at most ${maximum} chars.

Why we use ${input} instead of ${label} here? If I limit maximum of chars as 200
and the user input 201 chars. He/she will get a huge long error message!

case 2: for password field, I will get message like:

'mySecretPassword' must be at most 12 chars.
 
which make password visible!

case 3: If I have two Date TextField, one is for startDate, the other is for endDate. Both fields are constraint by DateValidator.maximum. If the user input both fields as '2005/02/05'. He will get message:

'2005/02/05' must be smaller than 2004/01/01.

but he/she has no idea which field is wrong!

Is there any reason why we prefer ${input} over ${label} ?



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Ingram Chen
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Institue of BioMedical Sciences Academia Sinica Taiwan
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