Is it possible to render a <fragment> of a Thymele...

# http4k

[Mikael Ståldal]

Is it possible to render a fragment of a Thymeleaf template? I think this method in Thymeleaf's API needs to be used.

[dave]

I don't know as we've never tried it! Let us know! 🙃

[Mikael Ståldal]

I don't think it's possible with the current implementation of http4k-template-thymeleaf.

[Mikael Ståldal]

But easy to fix: https://github.com/http4k/http4k/pull/1258

[Mikael Ståldal]

Do we want to extend the ViewModel inteface to be able to return fragment separately? Perhaps other template languages can support this as well. 🤔

[Mikael Ståldal]

According to https://v1.htmx.org/essays/template-fragments/, there are other Java based template languages with fragment support, although only Thymeleaf is currently supported by http4k.

[dave]

Thanks for adding the thymeleaf support. Until we have more than 1 case, I'm hesitant to try and abstract anything out right now 🙂

[Mikael Ståldal]

Sounds reasonable.

[Mikael Ståldal]

Here is an example on how to use it:
https://github.com/mikaelstaldal/htmx-http4k-thymeleaf

[Mikael Ståldal]

(Using a local copy of ThymeleafTemplates until a release of http4k is made.)

[dave]

@Mikael Ståldal FYI 5.44.2.0 is now live with the template support. We have also repackaged and renamed the hot reload packages to a more appropriate location 🙂

[Mikael Ståldal]

Thanks, upgraded to that now.