Define ParameterizableViewController to auto redirect path url with view - spring-boot

Question

I'm using spring boot 1.2.1 and I would like to configure a ParameterizableViewController like I was doing in xml style :
for example before I was doing :
<mvc:view-controller path="/ie7"/>
That code redirects an url like http://mywebsite.com/mycontext/ie7 to a jsp placed in /WEB-INF/views/ie7.jsp without creating a controller directly.
I would like to do the same thing with spring boot. After checking on the net I had this in my config file :
#Bean(name = "ie7Controller")
public ParameterizableViewController getIe7ControllerView() {
ParameterizableViewController viewController = new ParameterizableViewController();
viewController.setViewName("ie7");
return viewController;
}
In my application.properties I configure the view like this :
spring.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/views/
spring.view.suffix=.jsp
I try to add also :
#Bean
public InternalResourceViewResolver getViewResolver() {
InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/views/");
viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
return viewResolver;
}
But when I try http://mywebsite.com/mycontext/ie7 I got a 404.
Here is the logs I got :
During app launch :
Rejected bean name 'ie7Controller': no URL paths identified
When I try to call the page :
2015-02-11 09:01:42.693 DEBUG 1160 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet : DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet' processing GET request for [/stdapps/ie7]
2015-02-11 09:01:42.699 DEBUG 1160 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Looking up handler method for path /ie7
2015-02-11 09:01:42.704 DEBUG 1160 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Did not find handler method for [/ie7]
2015-02-11 09:01:42.706 DEBUG 1160 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping : Matching patterns for request [/ie7] are [/**]
2015-02-11 09:01:42.708 DEBUG 1160 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping : URI Template variables for request [/ie7] are {}
2015-02-11 09:01:42.712 DEBUG 1160 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping : Mapping [/ie7] to HandlerExecutionChain with handler [ResourceHttpRequestHandler [locations=[ServletContext resource [/], class path resource [META-INF/resources/], class path resource [resources/], class path resource [static/], class path resource [public/]], resolvers=[org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.PathResourceResolver#39689892]]] and 1 interceptor
2015-02-11 09:01:42.714 DEBUG 1160 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet : Last-Modified value for [/stdapps/ie7] is: -1
do I miss something ? I feel like I need to specify and url somewhere, I try to add #RequestMapping(value="ie7") with #Bean(name = "ie7Controller") with no luck
thanks for your help

Answer 1

If I understand your requirement correctly then the following code should do the trick:
#Configuration
#ComponentScan
#EnableAutoConfiguration
#EnableWebMvc
public class Application extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
#Override
public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
registry.addViewController("/ie7").setViewName("ie7");
};
}