Spring messaging in JavaScript and Thymeleaf
I am using Thymeleaf with Spring MVC 4.1.1 and I want to be able to reuse my Spring messages (with auto-defined locale) for my JavaScript files. For example. I want to do:
$('#fooTitle').text(messages['foo.title']);
... and #fooTitle will contain the pod value foo.title
for the custom locale.
What's the easiest way to do this? Note that I need a JavaScript object ("dictionary") or some other data structure that is easy to target.
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If not the simplest (but admittedly simple enough), the cleanest and most reliable way is to use html5 data attributes to pass back-end data to js. This way, no matter you move your javascript to external files, it still works. Use some element as a container (choose the one that best suits your case) as a carrier for thymeleaf i18n return values and then access them with jQuery
in html:
<div id="container" th:attr="data-foo-title-txt=#{foo.title}"></div>
in js:
$('#fooTitle').text($("#container").data("foo-title-txt"));
See also my older similar answer (although the OP didn't leave any signs of life after that :)), JavaScript, Thymeleaf and localized text
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