How to use custom Spring EL function in Thymeleaf?

Question

I write a Function like this:

public interface SUtils {

    static String reverseString(String input) {
        StringBuilder backwards = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++) {
            backwards.append(input.charAt(input.length() - 1 - i));
        }
        return backwards.toString();
    }
}

And register this function with StandardEvaluationContext.registerFunction. And in controller I use @Value("#{#reverseString('hello')}") can get the value. but in thymeleaf when I use ${reverseString('hello')} got an error Exception evaluating SpringEL expression: "reverseString('hello')".

How to use custom spel in thymeleaf?

Answer 1

What I usually do, is to define Thymeleaf utility classes like this as a Bean using @Component. In Spring EL you can then simply refer to them using @ with auto-detection. So there is no need to register them.

@Component
public interface SUtils {

  static String reverseString(String input) {
    // ...
  }
}

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<span th:text="${@sUtils.reverseString('hello')}"></span>

Answer 2

Not in front of a way to test, but offhand try using the static call:

th:text="${T(com.package.SUtils).reverseString('hello')}"