16.4 Scaffolding and i18n

Grails scaffolding templates for controllers and views are fully i18n-aware. The GSPs use the message tag for labels, buttons etc. and controller flash messages use i18n to resolve locale-specific messages.

The scaffolding includes locale specific labels for domain classes and domain fields. For example, if you have a Book domain class with a title field:

  1. class Book {
  2.     String title
  3. }

The scaffolding will use labels with the following keys:

  1. book.label = Libro
  2. book.title.label = Título del libro

You can use this property pattern if you’d like or come up with one of your own. There is nothing special about the use of the word label as part of the key other than it’s the convention used by the scaffolding.