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Java Countries of the World with Spring

Posted by Karin Fernandez
Karin Fernandez
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Countries of the world with Spring: flag images not showing

Hello, I'm working on the Countries of the World project, but I'm not able to get the images to show on the page. My images are under : src/main/resources/static/flags folder. On my index page, in order to show the image, this is what I did: <img th:src="@{'/flags/'+${country.countryImageName}+'.png'}" th:alt="@{${country.countryImageName}+'.png'}"/>

where country.countryImageName is the name of the flag, which I entered before. What is showing on the page is the alternative text, for example, as italy.png. So, this means that is taking the right name. What could be causing this?

I'm not sure how to post the code here, but the repository link is: https://github.com/karinfdez/countries_world_java_project

Karin Fernandez
Karin Fernandez
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One more thing: I'm using Maven and working with Spring Tool Suite

Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
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Added a Pull Request with changes

All info is there.

So the problem is with the naming convention.

Because you write @RequestMapping("/flags/{countryName}") and use path to images "/flags/india.png"

Spring is confused where is the asset, i.e. image and where is actual link to detail page.

I changed link to "/country". Does it make sense ?

P.S. In later courses you see that for example Chris puts all static stuff under "/assets" folder to avoid confusions