How to manually render Spring MVC view to html?

If you want to render the view under the same locale as the DispatcherServlet would render it, try coping it's render-method:

/** LocaleResolver used by this servlet */
private LocaleResolver localeResolver;

/** List of ViewResolvers used by this servlet */
private List<ViewResolver> viewResolvers;

/**
 * Render the given ModelAndView.
 * <p>This is the last stage in handling a request. It may involve resolving the view by name.
 * @param mv the ModelAndView to render
 * @param request current HTTP servlet request
 * @param response current HTTP servlet response
 * @throws ServletException if view is missing or cannot be resolved
 * @throws Exception if there's a problem rendering the view
 */
protected void render(ModelAndView mv, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
    // Determine locale for request and apply it to the response.
    Locale locale = this.localeResolver.resolveLocale(request);
    response.setLocale(locale);

    View view;
    if (mv.isReference()) {
        // We need to resolve the view name.
        view = resolveViewName(mv.getViewName(), mv.getModelInternal(), locale, request);
        if (view == null) {
            throw new ServletException("Could not resolve view with name '" + mv.getViewName() +
                    "' in servlet with name '" + getServletName() + "'");
        }
    }
    else {
        // No need to lookup: the ModelAndView object contains the actual View object.
        view = mv.getView();
        if (view == null) {
            throw new ServletException("ModelAndView [" + mv + "] neither contains a view name nor a " +
                    "View object in servlet with name '" + getServletName() + "'");
        }
    }

    // Delegate to the View object for rendering.
    if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
        logger.debug("Rendering view [" + view + "] in DispatcherServlet with name '" + getServletName() + "'");
    }
    try {
        view.render(mv.getModelInternal(), request, response);
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
            logger.debug("Error rendering view [" + view + "] in DispatcherServlet with name '" +
                    getServletName() + "'", ex);
        }
        throw ex;
    }
}

/**
 * Resolve the given view name into a View object (to be rendered).
 * <p>The default implementations asks all ViewResolvers of this dispatcher.
 * Can be overridden for custom resolution strategies, potentially based on
 * specific model attributes or request parameters.
 * @param viewName the name of the view to resolve
 * @param model the model to be passed to the view
 * @param locale the current locale
 * @param request current HTTP servlet request
 * @return the View object, or {@code null} if none found
 * @throws Exception if the view cannot be resolved
 * (typically in case of problems creating an actual View object)
 * @see ViewResolver#resolveViewName
 */
protected View resolveViewName(String viewName, Map<String, Object> model, Locale locale,
        HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception {

    for (ViewResolver viewResolver : this.viewResolvers) {
        View view = viewResolver.resolveViewName(viewName, locale);
        if (view != null) {
            return view;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

It should usually be sufficient to add @Autowired to the fields on top, but the DispatcherServlet also employs a fallback when autowiring would fail.

Try autowiring the ViewResolver then calling resolveViewName("myview", Locale.US) to get the View.

Then call render() on the view, passing it a "mock" HTTP response that has a ByteArrayOutputStream for its output, and get the HTML from the ByteArrayOutputStream.

Update

Here's the working example, copied from the question. (so the code is actually with the answer)

View resolvedView = thiz.viewResolver.resolveViewName("myViewName", Locale.US);
MockHttpServletResponse mockResp = new MockHttpServletResponse();
resolvedView.render(model.asMap(), req, mockResp);
System.out.println("rendered html : " + mockResp.getContentAsString());