I am currently learning Spring/Spring Boot and I am trying to code a forgot password function. All my other functions, like login etc. are working as intended, but redirecting to an reset-password page does not work for some reason and gives me the following error, in which it looks for the jsp with a weird prefix.
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404).
JSP file [/reset-password/WEB-INF/jsp/reset-password.jsp] not found
I generate links that look like so: http://localhost:8080/reset-password/{a-random-uuid}
reset-password.jsp
<%@ include file="includes/header.jsp" %>
<div class="panel panel-primary">
<div class="panel-heading">
<h3 class="panel-title">Reset your password</h3>
</div>
<div class="panel-body">
<form:form modelAttribute="resetPasswordForm" role="form">
<form:errors cssClass="error" />
<div class="form-group">
<form:label path="password">Type new password</form:label>
<form:password path="password" class="form-control"
placeholder="Password" />
<form:errors cssClass="error" path="password" />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<form:label path="retypePassword">Retype new password</form:label>
<form:password path="retypePassword" class="form-control"
placeholder="Retype password" />
<form:errors cssClass="error" path="retypePassword" />
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Reset password</button>
</form:form>
</div>
</div>
<%@include file="includes/footer.jsp"%>
My reset-controller:
[imports]
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/reset-password/{resetPasswordCode}")
public class ResetPasswordController {
private final UserCommandService userCommandService;
public ResetPasswordController(UserCommandService userCommandService) {
this.userCommandService = userCommandService;
}
@GetMapping
public String forgotPassword(Model model){
model.addAttribute(new ResetPasswordForm());
return "reset-password";
}
@PostMapping
public String resetPassword(@PathVariable String resetPasswordCode, @Validated ResetPasswordForm resetPasswordForm, BindingResult result, RedirectAttributes redirectAttributes){
if (result.hasErrors()) {
return "reset-password";
}
try{
userCommandService.resetPassword(resetPasswordCode, resetPasswordForm.getPassword());
MyUtils.flash(redirectAttributes, "success", "Password was changed");
return "redirect:/login";
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
result.reject("Url is invalid");
return "reset-password";
}
}
}
The Resetpasswordform
package com.learningspring.springdiproject.dto;
import constraints.Password;
import constraints.RetypePassword;
@RetypePassword
public class ResetPasswordForm {
@Password
private String password;
@Password
private String retypePassword;
public String getRetypePassword() {
return retypePassword;
}
public void setRetypePassword(String retypePassword) {
this.retypePassword = retypePassword;
}
public String getPassword() {
return password;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}
}
properties file
spring.mvc.view.prefix= WEB-INF/jsp/ spring.mvc.view.suffix= .jsp spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:~/test;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE;AUTO_SERVER=TRUE spring.datasource.username= spring spring.datasource.password= spring spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create spring.jpa.properties.javax.persistence.validation.mode= none
Finally my pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.learningspring</groupId>
<artifactId>springdiproject</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>springdiproject</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>11</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
<version>5.4.6</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<configuration>
<compilerArgs>
<arg>-parameters</arg>
</compilerArgs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I am pretty sure my pom and controller are right, since I can’t see a difference between this controller and my other controllers.
Note: Password and Retype password are just custom constraints, that check, the size of the password and if the two passwords of the form math an such.
I think somewhere, the Viewcontroller messes up and puts the prefix in there. But I could not find out where that may come from. Others with the same problem didnt have jasper in their pom or the wrong folder structure, but I double checked those errors.
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Answer
Try to change the following property to start with a /
spring.mvc.view.prefix= /WEB-INF/jsp/
This will allow spring to search into subfolders of your webapp/WEB-INF/jsp path.