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Dropwizard service directory inside assets directory

I have a Dropwizard/AngularJS website. I have my assets served from an AssetsBundle on the root directory:

public void initialize(Bootstrap<WebsiteConfiguration> bootstrap) {
    bootstrap.addBundle(new AssetsBundle("/assets/", "/", "index.html"));
    ...
}

And I want to serve my REST endpoints on /services:

public void run(WebsiteConfiguration configuration, Environment environment) throws Exception {
    environment.jersey().setUrlPattern("/service");
    ...
}

Based on documentation and answers I've seen elsewhere, this seems like it should work. However, I just tried it, and everything on /service is returning a 404. When I dug into the app through a debugger, it appears that it's because the requests are going through the AssetServlet, not through Jersey.

Am I missing something? Is there a good way to serve my front-end on the root directory and the REST services on a sub-path?

Solution

  • I also struggled with this issue some time ago. What helped me was adding these lines to the app.yml config file:

    server:
  type: simple
  rootPath: '/rest/*'
  applicationContextPath: /