Feature Request: Allow the name of the main application class to be customised

[muescha]

Feature Request:

Allow the name of the main application class to be customised

Why

Since each Application is opened as a separate project in an IDE - I is not always nice to have {MetaData.Name}Application as the main application name but only as Application.

It would be nice if this is as an option for the initializr.

History / References

This was changed in 2014 in isssue:

• Issue Allow the name of the main application class to be customised #60 Allow the name of the main application class to be customised
• commit fd85022
• later moved with d0985d3

Workaround:

• use non valid chars in the name, then it fallback to fallbackApplicationName="Application".

[mhalbritter]

Hello,

this is already possible by calling io.spring.initializr.generator.project.MutableProjectDescription#setApplicationName. Does that work for you?

[muescha]

Thanks a lot - I will look into this. I missed that part.

But on the web ( https://start.spring.io/ ), an input field for setApplicationName is not used?

[mhalbritter]

No, on start.spring.io the artifact id is used to deduce the application name. We want to keep the input fields to a minimum, so we won't add anything there.

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