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Spring boot webjars not generated, Http 406 returned

For some reason bootstrap webjars are not being copied into target, and for that reason they cannot be found.

pom.xml

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.4.RELEASE</version>
</parent>

...

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.webjars</groupId>
        <artifactId>bootstrap</artifactId>
        <version>4.1.3</version>
</dependency>

Resource handlers:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer {

@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
    registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**").addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/resources/*");
    registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/").addResourceLocations("/resources/");
    registry.addResourceHandler("/webjars/**").addResourceLocations("classpath:/META-INF/resources/webjars/");
}
}

Somewhere in my static resources

...
<script src="webjars/bootstrap/4.1.3/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
...

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Nothing is generated into /target Any idea what am I missing? I spend few hours on this and also reached second page on google searches.

Solution

  • I will answer my own question.

    I would never tell that could be a problem but apparently @GetMapping annotation broke my UI. I still didn't figure it out what was the problem. I just found solution.

    So I used Thymeleaf to resolve my views

    @Controller
public class ViewController {

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

    And apparently it clashes when I use traditional Restful controller

    @RestController(value = "/face-detection")
public class FaceDetectController {

@GetMapping(produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE) {
...

    This single @GetMapping was breaking entire UI. What I had to do was simply add / in the mapping 

    @GetMapping(value ="/", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)

    And the whole thing magically started to work. Similar issue somewhere deep in the github: https://github.com/springfox/springfox/issues/1647