Add support for compressing resources [SPR-7140]

[spring-projects-issues]

Keith Donald opened SPR-7140 and commented

As a user, I would like static resources of text/* mime-types compressed by default. All text resources should be gzipped. JavaScript and CSS files should be minified before they are gzipped. There should be the option to disable runtime compression, since you don't want this on in development mode and it's possible some environments will compress as part of their build process.

Implementation option #1:

• Compress each time a resource is requested.

Implementation option #2:

• Compress the first time a resource is requested. After that, add the compressed version to a disk-level cache. Future requests for the resource are served from the cache.

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Affects: 3.0.2

This issue is a sub-task of #11776

Issue Links:

• gzip compression in DispatcherServlet [SPR-11714] #16336 gzip compression in DispatcherServlet

2 votes, 1 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Keith Donald commented

Minification should be pluggable. YUICompressor (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/) provides both JS and CSS minification and is Java-based. Could be a suitable default implementation.

[spring-projects-issues]

Jeremy Grelle commented

First pass under consideration for 3.0.4 will be limited to runtime-only gzip compression. Minification options and disk-based caching will be reconsidered for 3.1.