Issue
I have a controller that create model attribute and passes to the view "partial.html" to generate output
partial.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
<head>
<title>Home page</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<span th:text="'Today is: ' + ${message}"></span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
and inside a controller method
model.addAttribute("message", search);
How to do I get Htlm Output to a string inside controller method? like this
String htmlOutput="from partial.html";
Solution
Let's say you have a HTML file with two variable name and todayDate.
You want to process it and want to store it in a string / database / AWS S3.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello</p>
<p th:text="${name}"></p>
<p th:text="${todayDate}"></p>
</body>
</html>
Your HTML file location is src/main/resources/templates/home.html
By using the below function you can get the final processed HTML as:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello</p>
<p>Manoj</p>
<p>30 November 2019</p>
</body>
</html>
import org.thymeleaf.context.Context;
@GetMapping("/")
public void process() {
SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine = new SpringTemplateEngine();
ClassLoaderTemplateResolver templateResolver = new ClassLoaderTemplateResolver();
templateResolver.setPrefix("templates/");
templateResolver.setCacheable(false);
templateResolver.setSuffix(".html");
templateResolver.setTemplateMode("HTML");
// https://github.com/thymeleaf/thymeleaf/issues/606
templateResolver.setForceTemplateMode(true);
templateEngine.setTemplateResolver(templateResolver);
Context ctx = new Context();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
ctx.setVariable("todayDate", dateFormat.format(cal.getTime()));
ctx.setVariable("name", "Manoj");
final String result = templateEngine.process("home", ctx);
System.out.println("result:" + result);
}
Answered By - MANOJ NIMAR
