Display user selections as Spring CLI init parameters - for easy copy&paste.

Hi,

When the user selects various options for the Generate Project button, please:

1. display these selected options as Spring CLI init parameters
2. maybe inside a pre tag (under the Generate Project button)
3. so that the user can easily just copy and paste that CLI string into the terminal
4. obtaining the same result as clicking the generate button and unzipping the generated zip.

This would:

• greatly enhance the usability of this project
• help with testing, bug-fixing and reproducing bugs (or package/options problems), since that CLI String could be always attached to tickets for reproducibility.

Thanks in advance.

[wilkinsona]

I think we could do with a new issue for this as there are a few subtly different things that have been requested:

1. Display a spring init command in the Web UI based on the selections that have been made (this issue).
2. Display a curl command in the Web UI based on the selections that have been made (#66).
3. Provide support for linking to https://start.spring.io with preselected dependencies, Boot version, etc.

FWIW, I am currently in favor of 3 but I’m only one member of the team.

[snicoll]

Indeed. It should be noted that we don’t want to provide explicit support for creating projects with a set of dependencies and/or a specific Spring Boot version. The purpose of the service is to “start” (move forward) not reproduce things from the past.

Dependencies come and go (and so are the available Spring Boot versions). Of course, we can support such link for quite some time but this is limited (for instance, pre-1.2 code is gone already and we’re going to clean 1.3 or 1.4 specific code at some point).

Thanks for sharing the idea but adding such option in the UI is not consistent with this goal.