thymeleaf / thymeleafsandbox-biglist-reactive

Thymeleaf Sandbox: BigList, Spring WebFlux

This is a sandbox application, only used internally for development.

Contents

This sandbox repository contains an example application meant to test the use Thymeleaf rendering for very large amounts of markup using Spring Boot and Spring WebFlux (in comparison to Spring Web MVC).

See also: https://github.com/thymeleaf/thymeleafsandbox-biglist-mvc

Building

To build this project you will need Maven 3. You can get it at:

 http://maven.apache.org

Clean compilation:

 mvn -U clean compile

Run the application (Spring Boot based, using netty as a web server):

 mvn spring-boot:run

Once started, the application should be available at:

 http://localhost:8080

Executing

This application offers several URLs:

• Index page:
  • / or /thymeleaf: index page using Thymeleaf.
  • /freemarker: index page using FreeMarker.
• Small listing (8,715 elements, based on the MIT-licensed Chinook database for SQLite):
  • /smalllist.thymeleaf: Small listing using Thymeleaf.
  • /smalllist.freemarker: Small listing using FreeMarker.
  • /smalllist.data: Small listing in JSON.
• Big listing (same 8,715 elements repeated 300 times = 2,614,500 elements):
  • /biglist-full.thymeleaf: Big listing using Thymeleaf, without limiting the size of output chunks and requiring the full model to be fully resolved in memory before template execution. All output will be created in memory as a single DataBuffer, then sent to the server's output channels.
  • /biglist-chunked.thymeleaf: Big listing using Thymeleaf, limiting the size of output chunks so that they will be sent to the output channels as they are filled, letting these output channels ask for more in a form of (single-threaded) back-pressure. Model required to be fully resolved in memory before template execution.
  • /biglist-datadriven.thymeleaf: Big listing using Thymeleaf, working in data-driven mode so that one of the context variables is allowed to be an org.reactivestreams.Publisher<X> object and the Thymeleaf engine will bind itself to this Publisher and work in a reactive way as a part of the data flow itself, grouping the data output by the publisher in buffers before processing their corresponding part of the template and sending output chunks (of a maximum size and generated as data is streamed from the data-driver) to the output channels.
  • /biglist.freemarker: Big listing using FreeMarker. No limit to output buffers can be set. Model has to be fully resolved before template execution.
  • /biglist.data: Big listing in JSON.