Freemarker template not found

Question

I'm currently trying to get Freemarker to work with my application using Spring. No matter what I try I keep getting template not found. I am not sure if I have the configuration set up properly, but it never finds my template. Here is my spring bean config:

<bean id="freemarkerConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer">
    <property name="templateLoaderPath" value="/WEB-INF/freemarker/"/>
</bean>

Whenever I try to call getTemplate on the freemaker configuration it always sends back a template not found error. So if I do

configuration.getTemplate("testTemplate.ftl") 

it always throws an IOException.

I'm not sure if anyone has an idea of what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks for all your help!

Solution 1

First of all, /WEB-INF/freemarker would only work as a path from within WebApplicationContext; otherwise Spring would attempt to resolve it as file system path rather than servlet context path. Is the excerpt you've posted above from the context being loaded by DispatcherServlet?

Secondly, is there any reason why are you using configuration directly instead of using Spring's ViewResolver?

Finally, IOException can mean many different things. Can you post a full stack trace?

Solution 2

I've just had the same kind of problem and, at the end, I decide to use the approach below:

Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
FileTemplateLoader templateLoader = new FileTemplateLoader(new File(YOUR_BASE_TEMPLATE_DIR));
configuration.setTemplateLoader(templateLoader);
freemarker.template.Template template = configuration.getTemplate(YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME);
template.process(datamodel, writer);