Configure dropwizard to server index.html for (almost) all routes?

Question

I'm building a single page application which does all of it's html request routing on the client side and on the backend it uses dropwizard to provide a bunch of JSON services.

Essentially I'm having trouble getting the jetty in dropwizard to serve index.html for every request except to the following paths:

  /css
  /i18n
  /img
  /js
  /lib
  /services
  /templates

In fact I'm having a lot of trouble finding documentation that tells you how to setup any http routing at all. (I'm not a java guy).

Here's my simple yaml config:`

http:
  port: 8082
  adminPort: 8083
  rootPath: /service/*`

What do I need to add to acheive this.

Thanks

Answer 1

I've done this without changing my configuration. In fact, it only took me one line of code, to be put in the initialize method of my Application class:

bootstrap.addBundle(new AssetsBundle("/app", "/", "index.html", "static"));

Which basically says to serve anything under /app inside my JAR file under the URL pattern /, with index.html as the default file. This bundle will be named static, but you could pick whatever name you like.

Note that I'm using version 0.7.0-rc2 of Dropwizard, I'm not sure whether it works for earlier versions as well.