1. About

This library provides a thymeleaf3 dialect that resolves esi:include tags.

When property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.dialect-enabled is true, esi-includes will be resolved and their responses put into the output stream of the webpage.

2. Usage

• Add a dependency to this library to your project: implementation de.otto:esi-include-thymeleaf3-dialect:<version>

• Provide a Fetch function that is used to resolve esi includes. If a dependency to com.ning:async-http-client is present, such a function is provided automatically.

  Otherwise you need to provide a spring bean with type Fetch yourself. The function takes the source url as its argument and returns a Response object.

  Make sure that your Fetch-function handles redirects, as this library does not do it.

• Set property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.dialectEnabled to true so that the esi dialect is actually used

• Optional: Set property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.prefixForRelativePath to [http|https]://<hostname> to prefix relative esi:include src urls.

• Optional: Set property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.proxyEnabled to true to enable and start a local proxy. This proxy sets the header Access-Control-Allow-Origin to * so that problems with CORS are prevented.

  The following properties configure the proxy:

  • proxyRedirectProtocol - protocol used for redirects, default is https
  • proxyRedirectHost- host where to redirect to
  • proxyPort - port where the proxy is listening, default is 8085

3. Release Notes

Next Snapshot

Version 2.2.0

• Update dependencies (including update to spring boot 3.4.4)
• Publish library via central.sonatype.com instead of oss.sonatype.org

Version 2.1.0

• Update to spring boot 3.2.2

Version 2.0.0

• Build with java 17 / gradle 8
• Update to spring boot 3 / spring 6

Version 1.1.0

• Add property enabled-uris. It's now possible to restrict resolving of esi includes. When set only esi includes that are contained in responses of request uris that start with one of the configured enabled-uris are resolved. When not set, all esi includes are resolved as before.

Version 1.0.0

• Updates to Spring 5.x, Spring Boot 2.x

Version 0.2.5

• Remove default fetch configuration

Version 0.2.4

• Provide default fetch implementation even when dialect-enabled is false since it is used by both the proxy and the esi dialect.

Version 0.2.3

• Fix logging

Version 0.2.2

• Catch BindException when proxy port is already in use. This may happen during spring integration tests when spring caches multiple application contexts.

Version 0.2.1

• Stop proxy on context shutdown in @PreDestroy

Version 0.2.0

• Activate esi dialect by property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.dialect-enabled instead of by spring profiles

Version 0.1.1

• Add properties esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.proxy-redirect-host and esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.proxy-redirect-scheme to make redirect host and scheme configurable.

Version 0.1.0

• Extract EsiContentResolver into separate Bean.
• Add proxy to avoid CORS errors when resources are loaded within an esi-included page. Proxy can be enabled using the property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.proxy-enabled. The port can be set with esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.proxy-port, default is 8085.

Version 0.0.4

• Add spring properties bean for property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.prefixForRelativePath so that you get syntax highlighting and code completion in your application*.yml files in your IDE.

  This property may now also be written "prefix-for-relative-path"

Version 0.0.3

• Add javadoc
• Rename variables and httpClient to Fetch
• Rename property esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.hostname to esiinclude-thymeleaf-dialect.prefixForRelativePath

Version 0.0.2

Provide asyncHttpClient as httpClient when com.ning:async-http-client dependency is provided

Version 0.0.1

Initial version