Struggling with defining a custom template folder for Thymeleaf

[honest fulcrum]

When I put the template in the default location src/main/resources/templates, it finds it just fine. But, we're not dumping all our templates in that folder, but using some subdirectories, and I cannot ever get it to find it in src/main/resources/templates/foo/bar.

I'm guessing the right magic words in

templateResolver.setPrefix("foo/bar/");

should get it done, but so far only stacktraces 🙂

[tight wolf]

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mplates in that folder, so I need to define a custom template folder for Thymeleaf to look in.

To define a custom template folder for Thymeleaf, you can configure the template resolver in your Spring Boot application. Here's how you can do it:

1. Create a new folder for your custom templates, for example src/main/resources/custom-templates.

2. In your Spring Boot application, create a new configuration class and annotate it with @Configuration.

3. Define a bean of type SpringResourceTemplateResolver and set the prefix to the path of your custom templates folder.

@Configuration
public class ThymeleafConfig {

    @Bean
    public SpringResourceTemplateResolver templateResolver() {
        SpringResourceTemplateResolver resolver = new SpringResourceTemplateResolver();
        resolver.setPrefix("classpath:/custom-templates/");
        resolver.setSuffix(".html");
        resolver.setTemplateMode(TemplateMode.HTML);
        resolver.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        return resolver;
    }

}

4. Make sure to also configure the ThymeleafViewResolver bean to use the custom template resolver.

@Bean
public ThymeleafViewResolver thymeleafViewResolver(SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine) {
    ThymeleafViewResolver resolver = new ThymeleafViewResolver();
    resolver.setTemplateEngine(templateEngine);
    return resolver;
}

5. Now you can put your custom templates in the src/main/resources/custom-templates folder and Thymeleaf will be able to find them when rendering views.

By following these steps, you should be able to define a custom template folder for Thymeleaf in your Spring Boot application.

[honest fulcrum]

uhh... do I really have to go through all that just to have a custom folder?

[uneven sphinx]

hi there!

you can customize easily with properties

spring.web.resources.static-locations=

then you put any directory you want