Could not read freemarker template - freemarker

Question

My file is under
src/main/resources/freemarker/email_notification.txt
I am not able to read the freemaker file, that is email_notification.txt, which contain html file.
My Reference is from here: http://websystique.com/spring/spring-4-email-using-velocity-freemaker-template-library/
I have tried the velocity method but there is strikethrough in some of the words, thus i choose freemarker method instead.
#Transactional
#Service("EmailService")
public class EmailService{
#Autowired
JavaMailSender mailSender;
#Autowired
Configuration freemarkerConfiguration;
public void sendEmail(Map<String, Object> params) {
MimeMessagePreparator preparator = getMessagePreparator(params);
try {
mailSender.send(preparator);
System.out.println("Message has been sent.............................");
}
catch (MailException ex) {
System.err.println(ex.getMessage());
}
}
private MimeMessagePreparator getMessagePreparator(final Map<String, Object> params){
MimeMessagePreparator preparator = new MimeMessagePreparator() {
public void prepare(MimeMessage mimeMessage) throws Exception {
MimeMessageHelper helper = new MimeMessageHelper(mimeMessage, true);
helper.setSubject(params.get("trnmaster").toString());
helper.setFrom("XXXXX#gmail.com");
helper.setTo("XXXXXX#hotmail.com");
String text = geFreeMarkerTemplateContent(params);//Use Freemarker or Velocity
System.out.println("Template content : "+text);
helper.setText(text, true);
}
};
return preparator;
}
public String geFreeMarkerTemplateContent(Map<String, Object> model){
StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
try{
content.append(FreeMarkerTemplateUtils.processTemplateIntoString(
freemarkerConfiguration.getTemplate("/email_notification.txt"),model));
return content.toString();
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Exception occured while processing fmtemplate:"+e.getMessage());
}
return "";
}
}
part of the config file
#Bean
public FreeMarkerConfigurationFactoryBean getFreeMarkerConfiguration() {
FreeMarkerConfigurationFactoryBean bean = new FreeMarkerConfigurationFactoryBean();
bean.setTemplateLoaderPath("classpath:/freemarker/");
return bean;
}

Answer 1

Where you configure FreeMarker, you should use: bean.setTemplateLoaderPath("classpath:/freemarker/");
Also that example is quite strange. Why's the file extension txt? It should be ftlh for a HTML template (was ftl in older projects). Also I would definitely overwrite FreeMarkerConfigurationFactoryBean.postProcessConfiguration and do the recommended setup according to https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/pgui_quickstart_createconfiguration.html, except that you must not call setDirectoryForTemplateLoading, and maybe setDefaultEncoding is already set by Spring as well. It's important to ensure that you get automatic HTML escaping (incompatibleImprovements set to 2.3.24 or higher and the ftlh file extension does that).