Add ability to set default dependencies

Many of the basic capabilities can currently be configured with default values. These result in these values to be pre-selected in the UI as well as used on API requests.

It would be really nice to be able to specify the same on dependencies so that some dependencies could be pre-selected in the UI as well.

We have a custom fork of start.spring.io and we have to modify index.js pretty heavily to make this happen.

I envision this in the yaml (the addition being the default: true at the bottom.

initializr:
 dependencies:
    - name: AcmeCompany
      content:
        - name: ACME Spring Boot Starter
           id: acme-spring-boot-starter
           groupId: com.acme
           artifactId: acme-spring-boot-starter
           scope: compile
           description: Acme Spring Boot Starter
           starter: true
           default: true

[snicoll]

Just want to be sure we are on the same page

I think we are. “Either way, on the generate request, if any deps param is specified then the default will be ignored.” means for me that, from a UI/UX perspective, the defaults are “deselected” as soon as you select a dependency. This can get a bit funky when you remove the dependencies you’ve added yourself (as the default should be enabled again then).

Anyway. Let’s get more feedback from the team.

[onobc]

@wilkinsona lets close this one out due to the ripple effect it would cause on clients. Its not critical for our usage - we already work around it in the start-client custom instance we have.