Spring-Boot + Spring-MVC + Thymeleaf + Apache Tiles

Question

I have an already existing client module with apache tiles and thymeleaf, what works well. I wanted to convert it to spring-boot and wanted to do it step by step, but I am r

Answer 1

This example demonstrate how to configure Thymeleaf with Apache tiles, but it is letting spring boot to autoconfigure Thymeleaf. This way you can still use all spring-boot predefined environment variables like spring.thymeleaf.* in your application.properties

@Configuration
@AutoConfigureAfter(ThymeleafAutoConfiguration.class)//tweak autoconfiguration for apache tiles after spring boot
@EnableConfigurationProperties(ThymeleafProperties.class)
public class ThymeleafTilesConfig {

    @Autowired//this bean is autoconfigured with spring-boot-thymeleaf
    private ThymeleafViewResolver thymeleafViewResolver;

    @Autowired
    private ThymeleafProperties properties;

    @PostConstruct
    public void setThymeleafTilesViewClass() {
        //just set view class for thymeleaf-tiles
        thymeleafViewResolver.setViewClass(ThymeleafTilesView.class);
    }

    @Bean  
    TilesDialect tilesDialect() {       
    // This bean will be auto picked-up by spring-boot and will be autoconfigured :)
        return new TilesDialect();
    }

    @Bean//create tiles configurer for your needs
    ThymeleafTilesConfigurer tilesConfigurer() {
        final ThymeleafTilesConfigurer configurer = new ThymeleafTilesConfigurer();
        configurer.setDefinitions("classpath:/templates/**/views.xml");
        configurer.setCheckRefresh(!properties.isCache());
        return configurer;
    }
}

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/master/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/thymeleaf/ThymeleafAutoConfiguration.java#L116