How to read Freemarker Template files from src/main/resources folder?

I was facing "freemarker.template.TemplateNotFoundException: Template not found for name..." issue. My code was correct but I forgot to include /templates/ directory in pom.xml. So below code fixed the issue for me. I hope this helps.

 AppConfig.java :

    @Bean(name="freemarkerConfiguration")
    public freemarker.template.Configuration getFreeMarkerConfiguration() {
        freemarker.template.Configuration config = new freemarker.template.Configuration(freemarker.template.Configuration.getVersion());
        config.setClassForTemplateLoading(this.getClass(), "/templates/");
        return config;
    }

 EmailSenderServiceImpl.java:

    @Service("emailService")
    public class EmailSenderServiceImpl implements EmailSenderService 
    {
        @Autowired
        private Configuration freemarkerConfiguration;

        public String geFreeMarkerTemplateContent(Map<String, Object> dataModel, String templateName)
        {
            StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
            try {
                content.append(FreeMarkerTemplateUtils.processTemplateIntoString(freemarkerConfiguration.getTemplate(templateName), dataModel));
                return content.toString();
            }
            catch(Exception exception) {
                logger.error("Exception occured while processing freeMarker template: {} ", exception.getMessage(), exception);
            }
            return "";
        }
    }


 pom.xml :

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-freemarker</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
            <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <directory>src/main/resources/</directory>
                <includes>
                    <include>templates/*.ftl</include>
                </includes>
            </resource>

            <resource>
                <directory>src/main/</directory>
                <includes>
                    <include>templates/*.ftl</include>
                </includes>
            </resource>
        </resources>

    </build>

The root of the classpath is src/main/resources, change the path to

configuration.setClassForTemplateLoading(this.getClass(), "/templates/");