Add contribution model for application configuration

I would love to be able to create a new project that contains an application.yml instead of an application.properties file.

Maybe as an option? properties=yaml

Or maybe whiteSpaceBugs=true :trollface: Joking aside, we commonly give instructions to rename app.props to app.yml after creating a new project and then provide example configuration in YAML format.

I can understand the desire to keep the number of permutations down, so feel free to close this issue!

Thanks again!

[snicoll]

I’ve repurposed this issue as an enhancement in the library.

[uqix]

As a workaround:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;

import io.spring.initializr.generator.project.contributor.ProjectContributor;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;

@RequiredArgsConstructor
class DeleteFileProjectContributor implements ProjectContributor {

    private final String path;

    @Override
    public void contribute(final Path projectRoot) throws IOException {
        final var file = projectRoot.resolve(path);
        Files.delete(file);
    }

    @Override
    public int getOrder() {
        return 1;
    }
}

@ProjectGenerationConfiguration
class CustomProjectGenerationConfiguration {
    @Bean
    ProjectContributor deleteApplicationPropertiesProjectContributor() {
        return new DeleteFileProjectContributor("src/main/resources/application.properties");
    }
}