Is there a way to change the default validation messages for the entire app in Ecto?

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I have an app with several models that use validate_required when creating the changesets. I also happen to use Gettext to translate all the fields. The problem is that if I change a name in, let’s say “can’t be blank” to “mandatory field”, I have to do so in every model that uses the translation.

Is there a way to configure ecto to always show the same gettext message in one place in the app ? I’ve searched the docs and did’nt find anything about this.

I though that I could create a submodule that do just that, but I would like to knokw if there’s another way before diving too deep

Thank you!

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If you want “can’t be blank” to always be “mandatory field”, you can do so with gettext by mapping all can't be blank msgid to translations of “mandatory field”.

## From Ecto.Changeset.cast/4
msgid "can't be blank"
msgstr "mandatory field"