#VS Code Language Server for Spring Boot

VSCode extension and Language Server providing support for working with Spring Boot application.properties, application.yml and .java files.

Note: this extension has a dependency on VS Code extension of Language Support for Java™ by Red Hat.

#Usage:

The extension will automatically activate when you edit files with the following name patterns:

• ›*.java => activates Spring Boot specific support editing .java files.
• ›application*.properties => activates support for Spring Boot properties in .propertiesformat.
• ›application*.yml => activates support for Spring Boot properties in .yml format.

You can also define your own patterns and map them to the language-ids spring-boot-properties or spring-boot-properties-yaml by defining files.associations in workspace settings. See vscode documentation for details.

#Functionality for .java

##Navigating the source code - Go to symbol in file/workspace

Easy navigation to Spring-specific elements of your source code.

###Shortcuts

• ›Mac: Cmd-Shift-O (symbols in file), Cmd-T (symbols in workspace)
• ›Linux/Windows: Ctrl-Shift-O (symbols in file), Ctrl-T (symbols in workspace)

###Examples

• ›@/ shows all defined request mappings (mapped path, request method, source location)
• ›@+ shows all defined beans (bean name, bean type, source location)
• ›@> shows all functions (prototype implementation)
• ›@ shows all Spring annotations in the code

##Quick-access for running apps

Easy navigation to the provided request mappings of running apps.

###Shortcuts

• ›Mac: Cmd-Shift-O (symbols in file), Cmd-T (symbols in workspace)
• ›Linux/Windows: Ctrl-Shift-O (symbols in file), Ctrl-T (symbols in workspace)

###Examples

• ›// shows all request mappings of all running Spring Boot apps and opens a browser for the selected endpoint

##Live application information hovers

The Spring Tools can connect to running Spring processes to visualize internal information of those running Spring processes inline with your source code. This allows you to see, for example, which beans have bean created at runtime, how they are wired, and more.

The Spring Tools shows hints by highlighting sections of source code with a light green background. Hovering over the highlights with the mouse pointer, data from the running app is displayed in a popup.

For some types of information, STS 4 may also show a 'quick summary' as a codelens. Codelenses are only supported in Eclipse and Vscode at the moment, not in atom. For Eclipse this has to be enabled via Preferences >> Language Servers >> Spring Language Servers >> Spring Boot Language Server.

If there are multiple instances of the app running on your machine, the live data from all those instances will show up in the hover information.

###Examples

• ›@Profile: shows information about the active profiles on the running apps
• ›@Component, @Bean, @Autowired: shows detailed information about the beans and their wiring from the live app
• ›@ConditionalOn...: shows information about the conditions and their evaluation at runtime

###Application Requirements for Spring Boot projects

Live information is scraped from running apps using JMX to connect to Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints. This means that spring-boot-actuator must be added as a dependency to your application and enabled. The easiest way to accomplish this is to add the spring-boot-starter-actuator dependency to your application's pom.xml or build.gradle as explained here.

Spring Boot 2.2 and beyond

⚠️ The JMX versions of the actuator endpoints (which the tooling uses under the hood to retrieve live data from the running applications) is not enabled by default anymore since Spring Boot 2.2. In order to allow Spring Tools to continue to visualize live data from the running applications, you need to start the boot app with -Dspring.jmx.enabled=true in order to activate the JMX endpoints.

###Managing Live Data Connections

Press CTRL-SHIFT-P (or CMD-SHIFT-P on Mac) and select the command to "Manage Live Spring Boot Process Connections". A choice of actions to connect/refresh/disconnect to local processes found on your machine will then be presented.

##Code templates

Write Spring code with templates, available via regular code completion.

###Examples

• ›@GetMapping
• ›@PostMapping
• ›@PutMapping

##Smart code completions

Additional code completions for Spring-specific annotations

###Examples

• ›@Value: code completion for Spring Boot property keys
• ›@Scope: code completion for standard scope names

#Functionality for .properties and .yml

This extension analyzes your project's classpath and parses and indexes any Spring Boot Properties Metadata it finds. Both Maven and Gradle projects are supported.

The data in the index is used to provide validation, code completions and information hovers while editing Spring Boot Properties in either .properties or .yml format.

##Validation

##Code Completions

##Information Hovers

##Issues and Feature Requests

Please report bugs, issues and feature requests on the Github STS4 issue tracker.

#Releases:

Released versions of this extension can be installed directly from the vscode marketplace.

There are also development snapshots available with the latest fixes and improvements as a .vsix file that can be donwloaded from here. To install it open vscode, press CTRL-SHIFT-P and search for VSIX, then select Extension: Install from VSIX

Version: 2.2.0-PRE-RELEASE