Custom Spring Boot generator

A simple Java applicaton developed using Spring boot generators to
quickly bootstrap a customized spring boot application

Description

You can use this custom generator to quickly build a web application
with preconfigured artifactid, groupid, names and specific dependencies.

When generating projects from standard generators like start.spring.io,
you need to rename the artifactid, groupid, name and add some dependencies.

With one single command line you can do all the above using this generator.

Prerequisites

Below are the softwares that needs to be installed as a dependency

Maven
Docker (to build Docker image)
httpie (command line tool) or curl is also good enough

Getting started

You can either clone this repo, build the application or run the docker container

docker pull rakgenius/springboot-generator:v1

and run the image image using

docker run -it -d -p 8081:8081 rakgenius/springboot-generator:v1

Then navigate to

http://localhost:8081

This will display all the supported actions.

Running the application manually

1 . Git clone the repo to any machine

2 . Build the packages using the command

mvnw package -DskipTests

4 . Run the application using

java -jar target/demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Below are the useful commands

To create a default project:

http http://localhost:8081/starter.zip -d

To create a web project using Java 11:

http http://localhost:8081/starter.zip dependencies==web javaVersion==11 -d

To create a web/data-jpa gradle project unpacked:

http http://localhost:8081/starter.tgz dependencies==web,data-jpa type==gradle-project baseDir==my-dir | tar -xzvf -

To generate a Maven POM with war packaging and specific dependencies:

http http://localhost:8081/pom.xml packaging==war -o pom.xml dependencies==web,data-jpa,thymeleaf,actuator

Building the docker images

Below are the command to build the docker image and to publish it to docker hub

1 . Build the docker image using

docker build -t springboot-generator .

2 . Run the docker image using

docker run -d -it -p 8081:8081 --name springboot-generator springboot-generator

3 . Create your own image which has to be pushed to the docker hub

docker image ls

Get the "IMAGE ID" of "springboot-generator" image

Set the tag to your image

docker tag <IMAGE TAG OBTAINED ABOVE> <your dockerhub username>/springboot-generator:latest

4 . Now push the docker image to docker hub

docker push <your docker hub username>/springboot-generator

6 . Now you can pull the image on any machine anywhere using

docker pull <your dockerhub username>/springboot-generator

And run it using the command mentioned in step 2.

Built With

• Maven - Dependency Management

Authors

Rakesh Venkatesh