I have been trying many ways but not sure how can I point Eclipse to the correct location, or for Eclipse to auto generate spring-configuration-metadata file so that my application.properties can take advantage of the auto-completion. From most of the example online, it is using Maven and stated that spring-configuration-metadata will be generated and located in target\... location but it's not the same as Gradle
I am using Gradle 6.6.1 with Eclipse 2020-09.
Here's my build.gradle
plugins {
id 'java'
id 'eclipse'
id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.3.4.RELEASE'
id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.10.RELEASE'
id 'org.openjfx.javafxplugin' version '0.0.9'
}
group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '11'
configurations {
compileOnly {
extendsFrom annotationProcessor
}
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter'
compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok'
developmentOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools'
annotationProcessor 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-configuration-processor'
annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok'
testImplementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') {
exclude group: 'org.junit.vintage', module: 'junit-vintage-engine'
}
}
javafx {
version = '11'
modules = [ 'javafx.controls', 'javafx.fxml' ]
}
test {
useJUnitPlatform()
}
springBoot {
buildInfo()
}
eclipse {
autoBuildTasks bootBuildInfo
}
If I were to run Gradle build, I can see the file generated inside the build directory or the compiled jar.
project-dir\build\classes\java\main\META-INF\spring-configuration-metadata.json
This is what is shown in Eclipse though
If I were to click to create the metadata as shown in the image above, Eclipse will create additional-spring-configuration-metadata.json file under project-dir\src\main\resources\META-INF which will then now, gives me the auto-completion
But if I were to create new property, it will complain again as the metadata is not re-generated (I suppose)
So I have to manually re-generate it. So my question is, how do I set it up, so that it can be auto generated in Eclipse each time it gets refresh/updated?
Thanks!


