Spring boot: InternalResourceViewResolver not working - spring

Question

I spent several hours trying to use InternalResourceViewResolver in order to append prefix and suffix to html views.
My views located under static/pages/ and by Spring docs, folder static is considered to be one of defaults for static content. So, I could access profile page by pages/profile.html. But what I really want to have is profile instead of pages/profile.html.
I've tried several answers, but that does not work, like:
#Bean
public ViewResolver getViewResolver() {
InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
resolver.setPrefix("pages/");
resolver.setSuffix(".html");
return resolver;
}
and adding
#Override
public void configureDefaultServletHandling(
DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer configurer) {
configurer.enable();
}
Still does not work properly. By adding any suffixes or prefixes I could not found page on any path. I am starting to get 404 on pages/profile.html, but it also does not appear on other urls.

Answer 1

Just need add your own custom configuration like this
#Configuration
public class WebMvcConfig {
#Bean
public InternalResourceViewResolver defaultViewResolver() {
InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
resolver.setPrefix("/jsp");
resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
return resolver;
}
}
Then you can inspect all your beans via "http://localhost:8080/beans"
And you can verfity is it using the custom configured bean:
{
"bean": "defaultViewResolver",
"scope": "singleton",
"type": "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver",
"resource": "class path resource [io/cloudhuang/web/WebMvcConfig.class]",
"dependencies": [ ]
}
But the eaiest way should be config it in the application.properties
spring.mvc.view.prefix=
spring.mvc.view.suffix=
For application.yaml
spring:
mvc:
view:
prefix: templates/
suffix: .jsp

Answer 2

Using Spring Boot you actually don't need to declare your own InternalResourceViewResolver. Boot declares it for you, and you can just add a couple of properties to your application.properties file. E.g. in your case these would be:
spring.mvc.view.prefix=/jsp
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp