Create Spring Boot Gradle Project

The purpose is to create a Spring Boot project in Gradle flavor. Refer here.

Use Spring Initializr to generate the basic project structure. Use “Gradle Project/Java/2.0.0” options, and fill the “GroupId/ArtifactId” fields with the values you want. In this case they are “com.example/demo”. Then click the “Generate Project” button to download the zip file.
Unzip the zip file to a directory. It’s already a complete Gradle project with Spring Boot.
Update the “build.gradle” file, such as adding “idea” plugin, dependency version numbers and etc. The final content is:

build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '2.0.0.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:2.0.0.RELEASE")
    runtime('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools:2.0.0.RELEASE')
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test:2.0.0.RELEASE')
}

bootJar {
    baseName = 'demo-spring-boot'
    version =  '0.1.0'
}

Now you can run the following command to generate the IntelliJ IDEA project artifacts(demo.iml/demo.ipr/demo.iws).

# If you have Gradle installed in your environment:
gradle build
# If you don't have Gradle installed in your Unix like OS(Linux/MacOS):
./gradlew build
# If you don't have Gradle installed in your Windows:
.\gradlew.bat build

After the command executes successfully, open the “demo.ipr” file in IntelliJ IDEA.

Create a “controller” class like below:

HelloController

package com.example.demo;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@RestController
public class HelloController {

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public String index() {
        return "Greetings from Spring Boot!";
    }

}

Update the existing “DemoApplication” class to:

DemoApplication.java

package com.example.demo;

import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;

import java.util.Arrays;

/**
 * Then entrance of the whole application. By default the application is a stand-alone Java application. If you
 * want to create a deployable war file, please following the instructions
 * [here](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#howto-create-a-deployable-war-file).
 */
@SpringBootApplication
public class DemoApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(DemoApplication.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    public CommandLineRunner commandLineRunner(ApplicationContext ctx) {
        return args -> {

            System.out.println("Let's inspect the beans provided by Spring Boot:");
            System.out.println("Args length:" + args.length);
            String[] beanNames = ctx.getBeanDefinitionNames();
            Arrays.sort(beanNames);
            for (String beanName : beanNames) {
                System.out.println(beanName);
            }

        };
    }

}

No the demo project is ready. Run the following commands to run the application:

1	java -jar build/libs/demo-spring-boot-0.1.0.jar``

After the application starts, you can access “http://localhost:8080/“ to view the result.

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