Allow specifying a custom parent pom

As mentioned in the docs there are times when you don’t want to use the spring boot parent pom.

For our internal use, we have a different parent pom we use - it would be very nice if we could pass in the parent pom group / artifact / version as some form of advanced parameter and then get it to generate the pom with the <artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId> in the dependencyManagement section and a <spring-boot.version> property in the properties section that could be used to override things that were set in the parent pom…

We are going to do this on our fork of the initializr - would this be something that would be valuable if we did it and submitted a pull request for it?

I think we’d have to do some additional work to the UI to put a checkbox for the “use custom parent” that would then display the fields for the group / artifact / version for the custom parent pom (and would only show up if they are selecting the “maven” project type)

[snicoll]

While I understand why you’d need that kind of thing, I am not keen on adding such level of customization in the UI. Having said that, a PR that allows to configure this on a particular instance would be nice.

[jasonrberk]

yes, I misunderstood what “instance” referred to. Thanks for replying