Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and @Controller

I am playing around with Spring Boot and have something that I don't quite get. I have 2 @Controllers in my application, and the second one is not really picking up REST calls, Thymeleaf is jumping on the requests instead.

Basically what I have is:

@Configuration @ComponentScan @EnableAutoConfiguration public class Application { public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable { SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args); } } 

Then

@Configuration @EnableWebMvcSecurity @EnableWebSecurity @EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(prePostEnabled=true) public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter { @Autowired Environment env; @Override protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception { http.authorizeRequests() .antMatchers("/", "/home").permitAll() .antMatchers("/webjars/**").permitAll() .antMatchers("/console/**").permitAll() .antMatchers("/resources/**").permitAll() .anyRequest().authenticated(); http.formLogin().loginPage("/login").permitAll().and().logout() .permitAll(); http.csrf().disable(); // for angularjs ease http.headers().frameOptions().disable(); //for H2 web console } } 

And

@Configuration public class WebMvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter { @Override public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) { registry.addViewController("/home").setViewName("home"); registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("home"); registry.addViewController("/hello").setViewName("hello"); registry.addViewController("/login").setViewName("login"); } @Override public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) { registry.addResourceHandler("/public/**").addResourceLocations("classpath:/public/"); registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**").addResourceLocations("classpath:/resources/"); } } 

And the two controllers. This one works, so it is picking up my call from a simple AngularJS client and responds:

@Controller @RequestMapping("/foo") public class MyController { @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET) @ResponseBody @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_FOO')") public String getFoo() { return "foooooo"; } } 

And this is the sick controller, not responding:

@Controller @RequestMapping("/sick/1") public class SickController { @Autowired SickRepository sickRepository; @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET) public Sick getSickById() { return sickRepository.findOne(1); } } 

Obviously later I'll change it to pull the ID from the URL as a path variable, but for debugging I went back to hardcoding.

The logs don't show anything until my request to /sick/1 arrive. At that point I am getting this:

org.thymeleaf.exceptions.TemplateInputException: Error resolving template "sick/1", template might not exist or might not be accessible by any of the configured Template Resolvers at org.thymeleaf.TemplateRepository.getTemplate(TemplateRepository.java:245) at org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine.process(TemplateEngine.java:1104) 

But why does it go to the template engine instead of my controller..?