SparkJava 2.5 problems

SparkJava 2.5 contains bugs.

1) It doesn't run out of the box. It misses a dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>1.7.13</version>
</dependency>

2) The after filter is NOT triggered.
So, I went back to version 2.3

3) The StaticFileLocation does not set the content-type header, so Internet Explorer 11 does not use the CSS file. I took me a while to figure that out.

Add this:
after("/css/*.css", (request, response) -> {
response.type("text/css");
});

Addition 1 june 2016:

Quick fix for problem 2 and 3:

Download the spark-master at GitHub. Unpack the zip.

2)

In the file StaticFilesConfiguration.java change the consume method into:

    public boolean consume(HttpServletRequest httpRequest,

                           HttpServletResponse httpResponse) throws IOException {

    String url = httpRequest.getRequestURL().toString();

    if (url.endsWith(".css")) {

    httpResponse.setContentType("text/css");

    }

   

   

        if (consumeWithFileResourceHandlers(httpRequest, httpResponse)) {

            return true;

        }

        if (consumeWithJarResourceHandler(httpRequest, httpResponse)) {

            return true;

        }

        return false;

    }

3) 

in the POM.xml

change:

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>

            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>

            <version>1.7.13</version>

            <scope>test</scope>

        </dependency>

into:

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>

            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>

            <version>1.7.13</version>

        </dependency>

Do -> mvn clean install

And you got your 2.6-SNAPSHOT

Reference it with:

<dependency>

<groupId>com.sparkjava</groupId>

<artifactId>spark-core</artifactId>

<version>2.6-SNAPSHOT</version>

</dependency>