Using Thymeleaf templates out of the Jar file

Question

I have a Spring-boot application using Thymeleaf as the view engine and I want to use a folder outside the deployed Jar as the source of the Thymeleaf templates, I set the variable:

spring.thymeleaf.prefix=classpath:/templates/

The "/templates/" is next to the Jar with the HTML files but I get an exception that Thymeleaf cannot resolve the templates, I've tried many configurations like:

spring.thymeleaf.prefix=classpath:templates/
spring.thymeleaf.prefix=classpath:templates

etc, not nothing works. What am I doing wrong, it is even possible?

user2070369 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-03 18:08:34Z

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OK, looks like the way to do it is setting the value using the file url like this:

spring.thymeleaf.prefix=file:./templates/

It Works now.

answered May 3, 2016 at 18:08

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brownfox Over a year ago

Hi, I ran into similar problem. Just want to know if this is the best way to solve the problem. Would using the packaging as war instead of jar be a more natural solution? I'm imagining WAR would be extracted into directories. So we don't have to do maven tricks to create two files. one jar. another /templates. Any thoughts?

sebastian romero Over a year ago

Make JAR not WAR

s332401890 · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-12 05:32:11Z

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spring.thymeleaf.prefix=classpath:/templates/

when returen view name , should be relative path, not start with "/"

answered Dec 12, 2017 at 5:32

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funcmatic · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-07 18:52:57Z

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For some reason spring.thymeleaf.prefix=file:./templates/ was not working for me, but I found another way around. I added FileTemplateResolver bean to my configuration:

@Bean
FileTemplateResolver templateResolver() {
    FileTemplateResolver resolver = new FileTemplateResolver();
    resolver.setPrefix("./templates/");
    resolver.setSuffix(".html");
    resolver.setCacheable(false);
    resolver.setTemplateMode(TemplateMode.HTML);
    return resolver;
}

answered Apr 7, 2022 at 18:52

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