Grizzly Server with static content and REST resource

Question

I have a Jersey REST 2.5.1 service which is served through a Grizzly server. Everything works fine so far. I want to add some static content, which is also served through Grizzly and provided from my JAR file. Therefore I use CLStaticHttpHandler. When I access static resources, such as my index.html explicitly (e.g. http://localhost:8080/index.html), everything works fine. However, when I try to access the root http://localhost:8080, I get a 404. The code looks like this:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
// some configuration stuff here

JacksonJaxbJsonProvider provider = new JacksonJaxbJsonProvider();
provider.setMapper(mapper);

ResourceConfig resourceConfig = new ResourceConfig()
            .packages("my.restapi.package")
            .register(provider);

HttpServer httpServer = GrizzlyHttpServerFactory.createHttpServer(URI.create(BASE_URI), resourceConfig);
HttpHandler httpHandler = new CLStaticHttpHandler(HttpServer.class.getClassLoader(), "/static/");
httpServer.getServerConfiguration().addHttpHandler(httpHandler, "/");

As far as I can tell from debugging, org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.CLStaticHttpHandler.handle(String, Request, Response) never gets called. Any hints, how I can make the index.html accessible as default page?

Answer 1

After some wasted hours, I feel a bit stupid now, but the simple solution was, to specify a path in BASE_URI (http://localhost:8080/api/ instead of http://localhost:8080/). Now, when accessing /, I get the index.html and the REST methods are under /api.