Adding a custom user or error message to a BOD service module

Adding custom messages to your BOD framework commands involves creating your properties file with a specified naming convention and location. The logging framework is configured to traverse up the package hierarchy and find and load any resource bundles (properties files) with names matching the naming convention.

Procedure

Create a properties file to list the message values, for each locale that you wish to support:
1. The property file should be located in the com.mycompany.logging.properties package where mycompany is your company name or some other, arbitrary unique identifier. The most important thing is that the package name ends with logging.properties and that this package can be found at or above the calling class in the package hierarchy.
2. The name of the property files must follow the pattern below: WcMyServiceModuleMessages_locale.properties , where MyServiceModule is the name of your service module and locale is the locale identifier (for example, en_US).
```
# translateable messages for the MyServiceModule component
# Message keys are defined in the class
# com.mycompany.logging.MyServiceModuleMessageKeys
MYCO0001E= MYCO0001E: The value "{1}" is invalid for parameter name "{0}"
MYCO0002I= MYCO0002I: The value {0} is over 9000!
```
Create a message key class which captures the property file keys. This class must define a static instance variable for each of the message keys defined in your property file.
1. If only server code needs to access the messages, create a new interface class in the MyServiceModule-Server project. The suggested naming convention is MyServiceModuleApplicationMessageKey.java. If both client and server need to access the messages, create the interface in the MyServiceModule-Client project, with a suggested naming convention of MyServiceModuleClientApplicationMessageKey.java.
2. For each message, create a line similar to the following in the interface class:
```
/**
 * MyServiceModule command invalid parameter
 * param 0: The name of the invalid parameter
 * param 1: The value of the invalid parameter
 */
public final static String MYCOMPANY_MYCOMMAND_INVALID_PARAMETER = "MYCO0001E";
```

Log your error as follows:

Logger logger = LoggingHelper.getLogger(MyClass.class);
logger.logp(Level.SEVERE, "MyClass","MyMethod",
MyServiceModuleMessageKeys.MYCOMPANY_MYCOMMAND_INVALID_PARAMETER,
new Object[] {parameterName, parameterValue} );