Thymeleaf integration?

[odrotbohm]

As Thymeleaf is the most popular template engine with Spring application these days it would be cool if there was some documentation about how to use jWebForm with it. Maybe a very thin Thymeleaf dialect that allows the declaration as follows:

<form th:web-form="${form}" />

That could hide away the interaction with the jWebForm APIs in the controller.

[jochen777]

Please have a look at this demo project, that uses thymeleaf and spring-boot-2:

Controller: https://github.com/jochen777/jWebFormSpringBoot2Thymeleaf/blob/master/src/main/java/com/example/springboot2thymeleaf/demo_thymeleaf/web/DemoController.java (I even wrote a unit-test for this! :)

Template: https://github.com/jochen777/jWebFormSpringBoot2Thymeleaf/blob/master/src/main/resources/templates/demo.html

Do you think, that this is clean enough? I don't want to dive too deep into Thymeleaf, if possible. (But to be honest: The rendering in java is mostly not the best way. It is better located in the template engine. BUT this can be done in a central, generic way and have to be done just once for all forms)

[n8himmel]

I think this one is ready to close :-)

[dsyer]

The sample is for an old unsupported version of Spring Boot. I couldn't run it with Spring Boot 3.3. It isn't anyway referenced in the docs for this project, so I would say the issue is still open.