Error resolving template "pages", template might not exist or might not be accessible by any of the configured Template Resolvers

Question

I did a project using Spring with Thymeleaf and Tiles with the following structure :

I have configured my Spring-Servlet :

<bean id="templateResolver" 
                class="org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver">
                <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/templates/" />
                <property name="suffix" value=".html" />
                <property name="characterEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
                <property name="templateMode" value="HTML5" />
        </bean>

        <bean id="tilesConfigurer" 
                class="org.thymeleaf.extras.tiles2.spring4.web.configurer.ThymeleafTilesConfigurer">
                <property name="definitions">
                        <list>
                                <value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml</value>
                        </list>
                </property>
        </bean>
        <bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.thymeleaf.spring4.view.ThymeleafViewResolver">
                <property name="viewClass" 
                        value="org.thymeleaf.extras.tiles2.spring4.web.view.ThymeleafTilesView" />
                <property name="templateEngine" ref="templateEngine" />
                <property name="characterEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
        </bean>
        <bean id="templateEngine" class="org.thymeleaf.spring4.SpringTemplateEngine">
                <property name="templateResolver" ref="templateResolver" />
                <property name="additionalDialects">
                        <set>
                                <bean class="org.thymeleaf.extras.tiles2.dialect.TilesDialect" />
                        </set>
                </property>
        </bean>  

my Tiles Definition is :

<tiles-definitions>
    <definition name="layout" template="layout">
        <put-attribute name="header"   value="header" />
        <put-attribute name="menu"   value="menu" />
        <put-attribute name="footer" value="footer" />
        <put-attribute name="body" />

    </definition>

    <definition name="usersView" extends="layout">
        <put-attribute name="body"   value="pages :: users" />
    </definition>
 </tiles-definitions>

will this give me the following error :

Error resolving template "pages", template might not exist or might not be accessible by any of the configured Template Resolvers 

but when i move the users.html page to the templates folder and make my tiles def as

<definition name="usersView" extends="layout">
        <put-attribute name="body"   value="users" />
    </definition>

its working fine .

So the Question is can Thymeleaf accept My Folder Structure? if Yes ,How?

Solution

Yes it can be by using the viewNames property

just change your Spring-Servlet.xml to

<bean id="templateResolver" 
                class="org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver">
                <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />
                <property name="suffix" value=".html" />
                <property name="characterEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
                <property name="templateMode" value="HTML5" />

        </bean>

        <bean id="tilesConfigurer" 
                class="org.thymeleaf.extras.tiles2.spring4.web.configurer.ThymeleafTilesConfigurer">
                <property name="definitions">
                        <list>
                                <value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml</value>
                        </list>
                </property>
        </bean>
        <bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.thymeleaf.spring4.view.ThymeleafViewResolver">
                <property name="viewClass" 
                        value="org.thymeleaf.extras.tiles2.spring4.web.view.ThymeleafTilesView" />
                <property name="templateEngine" ref="templateEngine" />
                <property name="characterEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
                <property name="order" value="1" />
                <property name="viewNames" value="templates/*,pages/*" />
        </bean>
        <bean id="templateEngine" class="org.thymeleaf.spring4.SpringTemplateEngine">
                <property name="templateResolver" ref="templateResolver" />
                <property name="additionalDialects">
                        <set>
                                <bean class="org.thymeleaf.extras.tiles2.dialect.TilesDialect" />
                        </set>
                </property>
        </bean> 

and your tiles definition to

<tiles-definitions>
    <definition name="layout" template="templates/layout">
        <put-attribute name="header"   value="templates/header" />
        <put-attribute name="menu"   value="templates/menu" />
        <put-attribute name="footer" value="templates/footer" />
        <put-attribute name="body" />
    </definition>

    <definition name="pages/usersView" extends="layout">
        <put-attribute name="body"   value="pages/users" />
    </definition>
 </tiles-definitions>

Explanation :

we have defined the root folder in the prefix at the Resolver

<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />

and extended it by

 <property name="viewNames" value="templates/*,pages/*" />

to the needed folders and any new view folder you create should goes in this property also redirect or forward too

Comments

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Wow,Worked as a charm,Thanks For the info Too,i understand it now