spring boot return string instead of .html file

Question

I tried to run spring boot application, that will return me the HTML static file on the static folder, the problem was: every time I load the page: 127.0.0.1 I get the String \"

Answer 1

I had this same problem. There was no way to return an html just by returning a String with the name of the html file. For me, it only worked using ModelAndView, in your case it would look like this:

@RequestMapping("/")
public ModelAndView welcome() {
    ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView();
    modelAndView.setViewName("bakara");
    return modelAndView;
}

Some people say that problems like this occurs because the jdk version. I use jdk14.