Add an annotation processor that generates properties files for certain
auto-configuration class annotations. Currently attribute values from
@AutoConfigureOrder, @AutoConfigureBefore, @AutoConfigureAfter and
@ConditionalOnClass annotations are stored.
The properties file will allow optimizations to be added in the
`spring-boot-autoconfigure` project. Primarily by removing the need
to ASM parse as many `.class` files.
See gh-7573
Add a new `spring-boot-configuration-metadata` module that provides an
API to manipulate Spring Boot configuration meta-data. Can read meta-data
from arbitrary locations, though the standard
`META-INF/spring-configuration-metadata.json` location must be preferred.
Closes gh-1970
Previously, the CLI’s dependency management used proprietary Properties
file-based metadata to configure its dependency management. Since
spring-boot-gradle-plugin’s move to using the separate dependency
management plugin the CLI was the only user of this format.
This commit updates the CLI to use Maven boms to configure its
dependency management. By default it uses the spring-boot-dependencies
bom. This configuration can be augmented and overridden using the new
@DependencyManagementBom annotation which replaces @GrabMetadata.
Closes gh-2688
Closes gh-2439
Add a companion module that IDE developers can use to read configuration
metadata from multiple sources into a single repository.
ConfigurationMetadataRepository provides access to groups and items as
well as an harmonized view on "sources" (that is the POJOs that have
contributed to a given group).
Closes gh-1970
Adds an annotation processor to generates a JSON meta-data file at
compile time from @ConfigurationProperties items. Each meta-data file
can include an array or 'properties' and 'groups'.
A 'property' is a single item that may appear in a Spring Boot
'application.properties' file with a given value. For example,
'server.port' and 'server.context-path' are properties. Each property
may optionally include 'type' and 'description' attributes to provide
the data type (e.g. `java.lang.Integer`, `java.lang.String`) and
some short documentation (taken from the field javadoc) about what the
property is for. For consistency, the type of a primitive is translated
to its wrapper counterpart, i.e. `boolean` becomes `java.lang.Boolean`.
A 'group' provides a higher level grouping of properties. For example
the 'server.port' and 'server.context-path' properties are in the
'server' group.
Both 'property' and 'group' items may additional have 'sourceType' and
'sourceMethod' attributes to indicate the source that contributed them.
Users may use `META-INF/additional-spring-configuration-metadata.json`
to manually provide additionally meta-data that is not covered by
@ConfigurationProperties objects. The contents of this file will be
read and merged with harvested items. The complete meta-data file is
finally written to `META-INF/spring-configuration-metadata.json`.
See gh-1001
Spring Buildmaster
Andy Wilkinson
Madhura Bhave
Stephane Nicoll
Phillip Webb
Matt Benson