Proper location of Thymeleaf views for Spring
spring-boot, spring-mvc, thymeleaf
Solution
I think the answer is that it depends on your build configuration. The directory "src/main/views" is not a standard resource location for any common build tool, so you would have to explicitly add it to the configuration of the tool you use to build your jar.
If I were you I would go with the flow (why be different?), and just use "src/main/resources" for classpath resources. I would also leave out the thymeleaf configuration completely and let Spring Boot handle it, putting my templates in "src/main/resources/templates".
Problem
I am running a spring boot application with Thymeleaf. When I run the application through my IDE (IntelliJ) everything runs fine. However, when I run the application through the command line (`java -jar`) the views do not resolve and I get the following error: ``` org.thymeleaf.exceptions.TemplateInputException: Error resolving template "index", template might not exist or might not be accessible by any of the configured Template Resolvers at org.thymeleaf.TemplateRepository.getTemplate(TemplateRepository.java:245) at org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine.process(TemplateEngine.java:1104) at org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine.process(TemplateEngine.java:1060) at org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine.process(TemplateEngine.java:1011) at org.thymeleaf.spring3.view.ThymeleafView.renderFragment(ThymeleafView.java:335) at org.thymeleaf.spring3.view.ThymeleafView.render(ThymeleafView.java:190) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1225) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.processDispatchResult(DispatcherServlet.java:1012) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:959) ``` Here are my settings: My Directory Structure ``` PROJECT-ROOT --src --main --java --controllers --[CLASS WITH MAIN METHOD] --views --index.html ``` My template resolver: ``` @Bean public ViewResolver viewResolver() { ClassLoaderTemplateResolver templateResolver = new ClassLoaderTemplateResolver(); templateResolver.setTemplateMode("XHTML"); templateResolver.setPrefix("views/"); templateResolver.setSuffix(".html"); SpringTemplateEngine engine = new SpringTemplateEngine(); engine.setTemplateResolver(templateResolver); ThymeleafViewResolver viewResolver = new ThymeleafViewResolver(); viewResolver.setTemplateEngine(engine); return viewResolver; } ``` Where should I put the views so that they can be correctly resolved when ran from a jar file?