Spring Boot now displaying the index.jsp page-CodePudding

I am a newbie with Spring boot. I am trying to return my index page in the controller but I am not able to. Its just returning the word index in the output. Here's my code:

Controller class:

@RestController
public class IMEIController {


@Autowired
private IValidateIMEI iValidateIMEI;

@GetMapping("/")
public String home() {
    return "index";
}
}

This is my structure

Application.properties file

spring.mvc.view.prefix: /WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix: .jsp

Output:

CodePudding user response：

The issue is with @RestController. Use @Controller annotation instead. @RestController is use to create RESTful web services.

Here some articles if you need to know more.

The Spring @Controller and @RestController Annotations

CodePudding user response：

Spring boot does not work directly with JSPs. You will have to add tomcat Jasper embedded dependency to get it working.

https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-jsp

Also change @RestController to @controller.

And if you want to develop Rest JSP in the same controller then use @Controller on class level and add @ResponseBody for the rest API methods which will return response in the body instead of returning a JSP page.