Getting started with Thymeleaf 3 text templates
Text ((org.thymeleaf.templatemode.TemplateMode#TEXT)) templates in Thymeleaf allow creating templates with no markup. Such templates can be used to genere non-HTML content like e.g. source code, markdown files or text emails. See how easy it is to utilize text templates with Thymeleaf.
Configure template engine with template resolver
@Configuration
public static class ThymeleafConfig {
@Bean(name = "textTemplateEngine")
public TemplateEngine textTemplateEngine() {
TemplateEngine templateEngine = new TemplateEngine();
templateEngine.addTemplateResolver(textTemplateResolver());
return templateEngine;
}
private ITemplateResolver textTemplateResolver() {
ClassLoaderTemplateResolver templateResolver = new ClassLoaderTemplateResolver();
templateResolver.setPrefix("/templates/text/");
templateResolver.setSuffix(".txt");
templateResolver.setTemplateMode(TemplateMode.TEXT);
templateResolver.setCharacterEncoding("UTF8");
templateResolver.setCheckExistence(true);
templateResolver.setCacheable(false);
return templateResolver;
}
}textTemplateResolver() method configures template resolver for text templates. In this example, templates will be read from classpath.
Create text template
Create /templates/text/text-template.txt file on your classpath (e.g. src/main/resources)
Name: [(${name})]
Link: [(${url})]
Tags:
[# th:each="tag : ${tags}" ]
[(${tag})]
[/]
Process the template
TemplateEngine textTemplateEngine = ...;
Context context = new Context();
context.setVariable("name", "Spring");
context.setVariable("url", "http://spring.io");
context.setVariable("tags", "#framework #java #spring".split(" "));
String text = textTemplateEngine.process("text-template", context);text variable will contain the output of processing /templates/text/text-template.txt
More on textual syntax
Source code
See pl.codeleak.demos.sbt.thymeleaf.ThymeleafTextTemplates class for the complete example. Repository: https://github.com/kolorobot/spring-boot-thymeleaf
