springgroovy.template.check-template-location default value

[marceloverdijk]

After upgrading to 1.2.0.RC1 I got troubles with Groovy Templates.

I'm using Groovy in my unit/it tests (via test dependency) and Boot tries to autoconfigure Groovy Templates then.
As my project doesn't have a /templates folder this causes startup issues as it cannot find the folder.

It is easy fixable by adding:
spring.groovy.template.check-template-location: false

I haven't seen this issue before RC1 so probably something has changed.
I wonder if the default value should not be false.
As I do not do anything with Groovy Templates it's weird that I to set this setting explicitly.

[wilkinsona]

I wonder if the default value should not be false.

The check was introduced to help people who were having problems getting their templates to work. Setting it to false by default will remove that help so I don't think we'll be changing the default.

If you're not doing anything with Groovy templates then why have them on the classpath? I guess you're using groovy-all? If you don't want to set the property to disable the check, I'd recommend trimming down your dependencies by only depending on the bits of Groovy that you are actually using.

[marceloverdijk]

Yes I should use groovy instead of groovy-all dep.