Configure multiple view resolvers priority in Spring MVC

By mkyong | Updated: July 27, 2011

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Tags: spring mvc

Problem

In Spring MVC application, often times, you may applying few view resolver strategies to resolve the view name. For example, combine three view resolvers together : InternalResourceViewResolver, ResourceBundleViewResolver and XmlViewResolver.

<beans ...>
	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver">
	      <property name="location">
	         <value>/WEB-INF/spring-views.xml</value>
	      </property>
	</bean>

	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver">
	      <property name="basename" value="spring-views" />
	</bean>
	
	<bean id="viewResolver"
	      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" >
              <property name="prefix">
                 <value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
              </property>
              <property name="suffix">
                 <value>.jsp</value>
              </property>
        </bean>
</beans>

But, if a view name is returned, which view resolver strategy will be used?

Solution

If multiple view resolver strategies are applied, you have to declare the priority through “order” property, where the lower order value has a higher priority, for example :

<beans ...>
	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver">
	     <property name="location">
	        <value>/WEB-INF/spring-views.xml</value>
	     </property>
	     <property name="order" value="0" />
	</bean>

	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver">
	     <property name="basename" value="spring-views" />
	     <property name="order" value="1" />
	</bean>
	
	<bean id="viewResolver"
	      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" >
              <property name="prefix">
                 <value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
              </property>
              <property name="suffix">
                 <value>.jsp</value>
              </property>
	      <property name="order" value="2" />
        </bean>
</beans>

Now, if a view name is returned, the view resolving strategy works in the following order :

XmlViewResolver --> ResourceBundleViewResolver --> InternalResourceViewResolver

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References

1. Spring MVC InternalResourceViewResolver example
2. Spring MVC XmlViewResolver example
3. Spring MVC ResourceBundleViewResolver example