Unable to load html pages through controller responces in spring boot

Question

I am new to Spring boot and I have learned that I can load HTML pages through Controller classes with the help of Thymeleaf dependency. and it did really work initially but it isn't now. Here's is my Controller class

package com.example.demo2;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
public class Controller2 {
    @GetMapping("/test2")
    public String sdf() {
        return "index";
    }
}

and here is my pom.xml

4.0.0 org.springframework.boot spring-boot-starter-parent 2.3.5.RELEASE com.example demo2 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT demo2 Demo project for Spring Boot

<properties>
    <java.version>11</java.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId>
        <artifactId>derby</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

and here is my project structure

static folder is for your css,image and js files, you need the put your view files into the templates folder — isadev41

wemu wemu · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-04T11:18:14

The @RestController annotation does set different defaults to be used for REST Apis (like content types and so on). Try using @Controller for the class and @RequestMapping for the method.

Unable to load html pages through controller responces in spring boot

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