Thymealeaf text template not printing the current date

Question

I am using spring boot 2.2.4 and using the thymealeaf text templates for the first time with spring boot.

Belowis the texttemplate I am trying to use and I am trying to print the current date and time but it is printing blank on screen.

CurrentDate:[#th:block th:utext="${#temporals.format(now, 'dd/MMM/yyyy HH:mm')}"/]

I have added the Java8 date time dependency in pom.xml and also added the java8dialect in the template resolver bean.

pom.xml
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<dependency>
    <groupId>org.thymeleaf.extras</groupId>
    <artifactId>thymeleaf-extras-java8time</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

ThymeleafConfig.java
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@Configuration
public class ThymeleafConfig {

@Bean(name = "textTemplateEngine")
public TemplateEngine textTemplateEngine() {
   TemplateEngine templateEngine = new TemplateEngine();
   templateEngine.addTemplateResolver(textTemplateResolver());
   templateEngine.addDialect(new Java8TimeDialect());
   return templateEngine;
}

private ITemplateResolver textTemplateResolver() {
   ClassLoaderTemplateResolver templateResolver = new ClassLoaderTemplateResolver();
   templateResolver.setPrefix("/templates/text/");
   templateResolver.setSuffix(".txt");
   templateResolver.setTemplateMode(TemplateMode.TEXT /* https://github.com/thymeleaf/thymeleaf/issues/395 */);
   templateResolver.setCharacterEncoding("UTF8");
   templateResolver.setCheckExistence(true);
   templateResolver.setCacheable(false);
   return templateResolver;
 }
}

Can anybody please tell me what am I doing wrong in thymealeaf text template that it is not printing the date?

Answer 1

You can use a Thymeleaf utility method to print various date and time variants.

For example:

<div th:text="${#dates.createNow()}"></div>

I think that may answer your specific question.

However, I suspect your question is more about the wider topic of binding Java objects to Thymeleaf templates in Spring - and I have not used Spring with Thymeleaf.