Micronaut view rendering without template engine

Question

Can micronaut render static files?

I added compile 'io.micronaut:micronaut-views' into build.gradle

The Controller:

@Controller("/main")
public class MainController {

    @View("index.html")
    @Get("/")
    public HttpResponse index() {
        return HttpResponse.ok();
    }
}

The index.html file is under /src/main/resources/views/index.html

A requesting localhost:8080/main does not render the view.

Answer 1

This is behaving as designed. There is no point in applying view model logic when there is no way to apply the model to the view.

You can achieve the desired effect by simply configuring static resources. For example:

micronaut:
  router:
    static-resources:
      main:
        paths: classpath:views
        mapping: /main/**           

With the above configuration an index.html file in src/main/resources/views will be served when the /main URL is accessed.