Prevent caching javascript file, Spring

Question

I have my project structured this way :

   src/main/java
        com.test.project
        com.test.project.configuration
        com.test.project.controller
        com.test.project.model
        com.test.project.repository
        com.test.project.service
   src/main/resources
       static
           css
           js
             jquery..
             calculate.js
           images
       templates
          admin
          user
             statistics.html
          login.html

In my calculate.js file I have an ajax call to the database, and there's some values I retrieve to show in a table in the statistics.html But the thing is, once calculated those values get cached and when I call the calculate.js again for other data, the same retrieve info from the first time show again.

I tried adding this on the application.properties

spring.resources.chain.cache=false
spring.resources.chain.strategy.content.enabled=true
spring.resources.chain.strategy.content.paths=/**

But they're still there. How do I fix this ?

Edit:

this is my rest controller : @RequestMapping(value = "calculatedResults/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET) public SurveyComparison getComparisonResultById(@PathVariable("id") long id, final HttpServletResponse response){ response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache"); return calculateService.getSurveyById(id); }

my ajax call :

function getSurveyResults(id){
var url="/calculatedResults/"+id;
requestZ=$.getJSON(url,function(data){
    surveyResults=data;
});
}

getSurveyResults(surveyId);

$.when(requestZ).then(function(){

document.getElementById("score1").innerHTML=surveyResults.scored1;}

And I fill out some columns of certain id with different values

judging from your question, this is not an issue about the browser downloading an outdated version of calculate.js, but the browser fetching outdated data from the server using AJAX. Could you provide more information about what your code actually does, and how it should behave? — Brian Clozel
I edited the code and added that part in. Basically, I make an ajax call to get some data. And then on I pull out data and put it in a certain element with a given id — user8816150

Super Hans Super Hans · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-01T15:23:56

Try this to stop caching of page as it works for me:

response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate");

Prevent caching javascript file, Spring

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