Spring Boot add HTML and JavaScript

Question

I\'m trying to run Spring boot app with some HTML5 and JavaScript and I have a problem.

I have project structure like this:

My Spring MVC Controller

Answer 1

Set the document root directory which will be used by the web context to serve static files using ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer.setDocumentRoot(File documentRoot).

Working example:

package com.example.config;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.ServletContextInitializer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

@Configuration
public class WebConfigurer implements ServletContextInitializer, EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer {
    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WebConfigurer.class);

    private final Environment env;
    private static final String STATIC_ASSETS_FOLDER_PARAM = "static-assets-folder";
    private final String staticAssetsFolderPath;

    public WebConfigurer(Environment env, @Value("${" + STATIC_ASSETS_FOLDER_PARAM + ":}") String staticAssetsFolderPath) {
        this.env = env;
        this.staticAssetsFolderPath = staticAssetsFolderPath;
    }

    @Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
        if (env.getActiveProfiles().length > 0) {
            log.info("Web application configuration, profiles: {}", (Object[]) env.getActiveProfiles());
        }
        log.info(STATIC_ASSETS_FOLDER_PARAM + ": '{}'", staticAssetsFolderPath);
    }

    private void customizeDocumentRoot(ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer container) {
        if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(staticAssetsFolderPath)) {
            File docRoot;
            if (staticAssetsFolderPath.startsWith(File.separator)) {
                docRoot = new File(staticAssetsFolderPath);
            } else {
                final String workPath = Paths.get(".").toUri().normalize().getPath();
                docRoot = new File(workPath + staticAssetsFolderPath);
            }
            if (docRoot.exists() && docRoot.isDirectory()) {
                log.info("Custom location is used for static assets, document root folder: {}",
                        docRoot.getAbsolutePath());
                container.setDocumentRoot(docRoot);
            } else {
                log.warn("Custom document root folder {} doesn't exist, custom location for static assets was not used.",
                        docRoot.getAbsolutePath());
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void customize(ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer container) {
        customizeDocumentRoot(container);
    }

}

Now you can customize your app with command line or profiles (src/main/resources/application-myprofile.yml: static-assets-folder: myfolder):

> java -jar demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar --static-assets-folder="myfolder"
> java -jar demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.profiles.active=myprofile