Disable Velocity view resolver in Spring Boot

Question

We use Spring Boot in our application along with AngularJS and HTML. We use Velocity only for email templates but not for view resolver.

@Bean(name = "velocityEngine")
public VelocityEngineFactoryBean velocityEngineFactoryBean() {
    VelocityEngineFactoryBean vefb = new VelocityEngineFactoryBean();
    Properties p = new Properties();
    p.put("resource.loader", "class");
    p.put("class.resource.loader.class", "org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader");
    vefb.setVelocityProperties(p);
    return vefb;
}

Even though we don't use Velocity view resolver, we get the following error due to auto-configuration:

ERROR org.apache.velocity - ResourceManager: unable to find a resource 'LoadList' in any resource loader. ERROR org.apache.velocity - ResourceManager: unable to find resource 'index' in any resource loader.

I tried to disable Velocity auto configuration:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class,VelocityAutoConfiguration.class })
@SuppressWarnings("PMD")
@EnableAsync
public class Application {

Also added the following in the application.properties file:

spring.velocity.check-template-location=false

But I'm still getting the above error. Is there any way to disable the Velocity view resolver alone?

Answer 1

I know this question is quite old, but it is quite easy to disable:

just add

spring.velocity.enabled = false

to the application.properties

Source: http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html

Answer 2

In Spring boot, With Annotation, you can exclude the VelocityAutoConfiguration like

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {VelocityAutoConfiguration.class})
@EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(securedEnabled = true)
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
}