Add external files (.css, .js, ecc) in rest application jax-rs, maven project

Question

Good morning, i am creating a REST application with JAX-RS and i'm using maven. Unfortunately I didn't understand as well the other question about this topic.

I created a .css file that i have to link for the output of my web application. for the html part, i didn't write "pure" html code, but i'm using RenderSnake API and when i try to add external css i don't understan whit path i have to add.

Can anyone explain me in which folder i have to add my files? Do I add something into the pom.xml file? Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

Answer 1

typically you would add those fines (.html, .css and so on) in /src/main/webapp or some sub folder (in your case /src/main/webapp/assets/stylesheets), and then reference the css in the .html file using

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/stylesheets/mystyle.css">

or something similar (notice the missing heading / in the path, which makes the path relative to the html file). For this to work, you'll have to put the .html file in /src/main/webapp/. If you comply with Maven conventions about resource placement, then when you package the web application Maven will take care of those files for you.

EDIT : as per rendersnake examples page ('include static content' section), just use a Renderable :

public class CssRenderable implements Renderable {

  public void renderOn(HtmlCanvas html) throws IOException {
    String host = RequestUtils.getHeaderValue(html, "HOST");
    if(host.startsWith("localhost"))
        return;
    html.write(StringResource.get("assets/stylesheets/mystyle.css"),NO_ESCAPE);      
  }
}

(of course, this is taken from the example page, change it as you need).