Can DropWizard serve assets from outside the jar file?

Question

In looking at the documentation, it appears that DropWizard is only able to serve static content living in src/main/resources. I\'d like to keep my static files in a separat

Answer 1

Working off of Marcello Nuccio's answer, it still took me the better part of my day to get it right, so here is what I did in a bit more detail.

Let's say I have this directory structure:

• my-dropwizard-server.jar
• staticdocs
  • assets
    • image.png

Then this is what you have to do to make it work:

1) In your dropwizard Application class, add a new AssetsBundle. If you want your assets to be served from a different URL, change the second parameter.

@Override
public void initialize(Bootstrap bootstrap) {
    bootstrap.addBundle(new AssetsBundle("/assets/", "/assets/"));       
}

2) Add the document root to your classpath by configuring the maven-jar-plugin like this. (Getting the "./staticdocs/" in the correct form took me a while. Classpaths are unforgiving.)

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-jar-plugin
  2.4
  
    
      
        true
        true
      
      
        ./staticdocs/
      
    
  

3) This step is entirely optional. If you want to serve your Jersey REST Resources from a different root path (e.g. "app"), add the following to your configuration YML:

server:
  rootPath: /app/*

Now you can access your static content like this, for example:

localhost:8080/assets/image.png