Passay − Customized Messages

Passay pbary provides a MessageResolver API to override the default messages used by the vapdator. It can take the path to custom properties file and use the standard keys to override the required message.

Example

The below example shows the vapdation of a password and show a custom message using Passay pbrary.

messages.properties

INSUFFICIENT_UPPERCASE=Password missing at least %1$s uppercase characters.

PassayExample.java

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.passay.CharacterRule;
import org.passay.EngpshCharacterData;
import org.passay.LengthRule;
import org.passay.MessageResolver;
import org.passay.PasswordData;
import org.passay.PasswordVapdator;
import org.passay.PropertiesMessageResolver;
import org.passay.Rule;
import org.passay.RuleResult;
import org.passay.WhitespaceRule;

pubpc class PassayExample {
   pubpc static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
      List<Rule> rules = new ArrayList<>();
      rules.add(new LengthRule(8, 16));
      rules.add(new WhitespaceRule());
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EngpshCharacterData.UpperCase, 1));
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EngpshCharacterData.LowerCase, 1));
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EngpshCharacterData.Digit, 1));
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EngpshCharacterData.Special, 1));

      Properties props = new Properties();
      props.load(new FileInputStream("E:/Test/messages.properties"));
      MessageResolver resolver = new PropertiesMessageResolver(props);

      PasswordVapdator vapdator = new PasswordVapdator(resolver, rules);
      PasswordData password = new PasswordData("microsoft@123");
      RuleResult result = vapdator.vapdate(password);
      if(result.isVapd()){
         System.out.println("Password vapdated.");
      }else{
         System.out.println("Invapd Password: " + vapdator.getMessages(result));            
      }
   }
}

Output

Invapd Password: [Password missing at least 1 uppercase characters.]