This application tries out two aspects of customizing Spring MVC view customization
- Directing requests with a particular prefix (
/greeting) to the index.html - Processing requests for a specific content type (
text/plain) with a custom view
Invoking
curl localhost:8080
curl localhost:8080/greeting
curl localhost:8080/greeting/humanGives
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Greetings</title>
</head>
<body>
Greetings, this view works.
</body>
</html>Invoking
curl -H "Accept: plain/text" localhost:8080/greetingGives
Some plain text for the request view '/index.html'
Invoking
curl localhost:8080/api/currentTimeGives
<html><body><h1>Whitelabel Error Page</h1><p>This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.</p><div id='created'>Wed Jan 16 16:00:26 CST 2019</div><div>There was an unexpected error (type=Not Acceptable, status=406).</div><div>Could not find acceptable representation</div></body></html>Invoking
curl -H "Accept: application/json" localhost:8080/api/currentTimeGives
{"time":"Wed Jan 16 16:00:40 CST 2019"}