get contents of processed JSP into spring controller without using HttpClient?

Question

So normally in a Spring controller you\'d just return a ModelAndView object and forward the request to the JSP.

What I need to do is actually get the co

Answer 1

Probably not possible easy way. Maybe injecting view resolver into controller and calling render with special response will help, but not sure :

ViewResolver viewResoler = // injected
View view = viewReslover.resolveViewName(String viewName, Locale locale);
HttpServletResponse xresponse = // custom response, buffers data
view.render(Map model, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse xresponse);
String content = // extract conten from data from xresponse 

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