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Java Spring Basics Creating Controllers and Views Serve a Thymeleaf View from a Controller

Posted by Alastair Herd
Alastair Herd
2,306 Points

Request Mapping with Index

Continuing our previous contact manager application, take a look at ContactController.java. Notice that currently it's returning a string as the response body. Change that controller method so that instead it serves a view named "index".

I don't feel as though this was addressed at all in the previous video. I'm not really sure what I am supposed to do other than what I've written.

Thank you for any help!

com/teamtreehouse/contactmgr/controller/ContactController.java 
package com.teamtreehouse.contactmgr.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

@Controller
public class ContactController {
    @RequestMapping("/index")
    @ResponseBody
    public String index() {
      return "Hello, Contact Manager!";
    }
}

1 Answer

Isaiah Duncan
Isaiah Duncan
3,241 Points
Isaiah Duncan
Isaiah Duncan
3,241 Points

Remove this line:

@ResponseBody

And change this line:

return "Hello, Contact Manager!";

To:

return "index";

The @ResponseBody is used if you are not processing the request any further and just want to return something (a String in this case) back to the browser.