In Spring every request will go through the DispatcherServlet. To avoid Static file request through DispatcherServlet(Front contoller) we configure MVC Static content.
Spring 3.1. introduced the ResourceHandlerRegistry to configure ResourceHttpRequestHandlers for serving static resources from the classpath, the WAR, or the file system. We can configure the ResourceHandlerRegistry programmatically inside our web context configuration class.
- we have added the
/js/**
pattern to the ResourceHandler, lets include thefoo.js
resource located in thewebapp/js/
directory- we have added the
/resources/static/**
pattern to the ResourceHandler, lets include thefoo.html
resource located in thewebapp/resources/
directory
@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class StaticResourceConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer {
@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
System.out.println("WebMvcConfigurer - addResourceHandlers() function get loaded...");
registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/static/**")
.addResourceLocations("/resources/");
registry
.addResourceHandler("/js/**")
.addResourceLocations("/js/")
.setCachePeriod(3600)
.resourceChain(true)
.addResolver(new GzipResourceResolver())
.addResolver(new PathResourceResolver());
}
}
XML Configuration
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/staticFiles/path/**" location="/staticFilesFolder/js/"
cache-period="60"/>
Spring Boot MVC Static Content if the file is located in the WAR’s webapp/resources folder.
spring.mvc.static-path-pattern=/resources/static/**