Questions integrating new Groovy template engine with Spring MVC and Spring Boot

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As blogged on spring.io both Spring 4.1 and Sprig Boot will integrate the new Groovy template engine (https://spring.io/blog/2014/05/28/using-the-innovative-groovy-template-engine-in-spring-boot, http://spring.io/blog/2014/07/28/spring-framework-4-1-spring-mvc-improvements).

I wonder the following:

  • Will Spring provide something like it does with the Spring Forms and Spring Security taglib?
  • If not what would be best to e.g. render form fields and more importantly form errors?

I think without it it will be a step back to develop a traditional Spring MVC webapp.

The template engine suports something like a BaseTemplate (see http://mrhaki.blogspot.nl/2014/08/groovy-goodness-use-custom-template.html) where it would be possible to provide custom methods to the template engine.

Related to this:

  • You can only provdide a single base template, so it will be difficult to include methods from multiple extension points. E.g. Spring Forms, Spring Security and multiple custom extensions like Fontawesome.
  • Is it possible to set the base template with Spring Boot?
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1 Answers

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A simple way to expose a lot of the spring specific attributes csrf etc... is to include spring.groovy.template.expose-request-attributes = true in your application.properties