spring-projects / spring-projects/spring-boot

Support DevTools override properties from custom starters

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type: enhancement
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Description

A colleague of mine wrote a custom spring boot starter (https://github.com/faucet-pipeline/faucet-pipeline-spring-boot-starter). This starter contains a property faucet-pipeline.cache-manifest which by default is set to true.

However for development it's recommended setting this to false. This is described in the projects Readme but can easily be overseen. It forces any user of the starter to find a solution for setting this value to a different value in development as well.

It would be nice if the starter could provide something that will be picked up by DevTools and configure this automatically.

I'm sure that this is useful for many other starters as well.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the custom starter's README and the DevTools documentation to understand the requested development-time override. Determine how a starter can provide this setting for DevTools to discover, then verify that the cache-manifest property is automatically false for development while remaining true by default elsewhere.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring-boot
Domain
developer-experience
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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