I want to display different html in Spring Boot

Question

I need to test different client against each other. for that i need to be able to open different html pages with spring boot.

i tried to do this: Multiple index.html in spring boot but it does only return a string "thick_client" on the webpage.

my controller looks like this:

@RestController
public class ApiController {
@Autowired
private StockRepository stockRepository;

@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String index() {
    return "thick_client";
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/anotherIndex", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String anotherIndex() {
    return "thin_client";
}

application.properties:

spring.mvc.view.prefix=/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.html

My Folder Structure looks like this:

pom.xml:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.13.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

cheers!

Answer 1

Try returning the string without the extension. For e.g return "thin_client";