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kgreenek
kgreenek

Reputation: 5024

Serving static content alongside thymeleaf templates with Spring Boot

I'm having trouble sonfiguring Spring Boot to use thymeleaf and still serve static content. I have two directories in my resources dir: "/static" and "/templates". According to the Spring Boot documentation, thymeleaf should find thymeleaf templates in the templates directory by default. I am getting a 404 though when I try to use a template.

Relevant code from my Controller:

@RequestMapping("/")
public ModelAndView index() {
    return new ModelAndView("index.html");
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/test")
public ModelAndView test() {
    return new ModelAndView("test");
}

index.html is in resources/static and test.html is in resources/templates.

index.html works fine, but if you try to open /test in your browser, it throws a 404 saying that the thymeleaf template could not be found.

I really appreciate any help. I'm stumped.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2709

Answers (2)

Pete_ch
Pete_ch

Reputation: 1321

Have you tried just returning the String name of the template and not ModelAndview? And have your ModelAttributes annotated as indicated in the documentation?

Upvotes: 0

ndrone
ndrone

Reputation: 3572

Any pages that are not going through the ThymeleafViewResolver(your /resources/static) need to be removed.

 /**
 * Configures a {@link ThymeleafViewResolver}
 * 
 * @return the configured {@code ThymeleafViewResolver}
 */
@Bean
public ThymeleafViewResolver thymeleafViewResolver()
{
    String[] excludedViews = new String[]{
        "/resources/static/*"};

    ThymeleafViewResolver resolver = new ThymeleafViewResolver();
    resolver.setTemplateEngine(templateEngine());
    resolver.setOrder(1);
    /*
     * This is how we get around Thymeleaf view resolvers throwing an error instead of returning
     * of null and allowing the next view resolver in the {@see
     * DispatcherServlet#resolveViewName(String, Map<String, Object>, Locale,
     * HttpServletRequest)} to resolve the view.
     */
    resolver.setExcludedViewNames(excludedViews);
    return resolver;
}

Upvotes: 1

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