Possible to use WebJars and static files with SparkJava?

[Ashley Hooper]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with combining both WebJars and static files using Spark 2.5.5. I've done some googling and it appears other people have found this problematic also.

e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/a/30997749/4072863

Also this earlier topic in this group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sparkjava/AFp2o-JJac0

My initial project layout was like this:

src

+-main

   +-java (Java packages below here)

   +-resources

      +-static

         +-css

         +-images

         +-js

I set staticFileLocation to /META-INF/resources, and was able to see the webjars/ subdirectory there (although the jQuery webjar was excluded - presumably due to a conflict), but of course my static files were not there because they were not available at /META-INF/resources

I then tried an alternative layout:

src

+-main

   +-java (Java packages below here)

   +-resources

      +-META-INF

         +-resources

            +-css

            +-images

            +-js

This led to my static files being available, but the webjars/ subdirectory was no longer there. I presume that the src/main/resources/META-INF/ path takes precedence over the webjars/ path?

Is there any clean/non-hacky way to combine webjars with static files in a Spark project?

Thanks,

Ashley

[Wilson MacGyver]

I'm not sure what you mean by webjar

if you mean using spark to create a farjar, this works for me http://sparkjava.com/documentation.html#static-files

I create

src/main/resources/public/js/a.js

src/main/resources/public/css/a.css

in the main method, I put 

staticFiles.location("/public");

http://localhost:4567/css/a.css

http://localhost:4567/js/a.js

works for me both running the app, as well as generating a uber far and run it as

java -jar

 

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[Ashley Hooper]

Sorry for the delay in replying.

Webjars are basically packaged versions of common javascript libraries that can be pulled in to a project via the pom.xml (Maven). More details are at http://www.webjars.org/

For the record, I've not had any problems including javascript, css, and other static files in my project.