Spring MVC UrlBasedViewResolver Example with Java Configuration
April 03, 2015
setPrefix(): Append a prefix with the value returned by Controller method.
setSuffix(): Append a suffix with the value returned by Controller method.
setViewClass(): Sets view class like JstlView.class.
setCache(): We pass true/false to enable/disable caching.
Now find a code snippet.
resolver.setPrefix("/views/");
resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
/views/result.jsp .
Find the complete example.
Project Structure in Eclipse
Find the project structure in eclipse.
Configuration Class using UrlBasedViewResolver
Find the java configuration file for UrlBasedViewResolver.AppConfig.java
package com.concretepage.config;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver;
@Configuration
@ComponentScan("com.concretepage")
public class AppConfig {
@Bean
public UrlBasedViewResolver urlBasedViewResolver() {
UrlBasedViewResolver resolver = new UrlBasedViewResolver();
resolver.setPrefix("/views/");
resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
resolver.setCache(false);
resolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
return resolver;
}
}
Create Controller
Find the controller used in demo.WelcomeController.java
package com.concretepage;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/myworld")
public class WelcomeController {
@RequestMapping("/welcome")
public String hello(Model model) {
model.addAttribute("msg", "UrlBasedViewResolver Demo");
return "success";
}
}
Create JSP Page
Find the JSP page.success.jsp
<html>
<head>
<title>Spring MVC</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>${msg}</h1>
</body>
</html>
Output
Run the URLhttp://localhost:8080/concretepage-1/myworld/welcome
Output will be as given below.
