#475: Added Spring Boot support in the sense that we now generate a spring-configuration-metadata.json properly filled with all Simple Java Mail properties, used for hint support in IDE's that support it. Spring Boot dependency is build-time-only

Author: bbottema

modules/spring-module/pom.xml

@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@
     <description>Simple API, Complex Emails. Now with Spring support</description>
 
     <properties>
-        <automaticModuleName>org.simplejavamail.spring</automaticModuleName>
-        <spring.version>[4.3.18.RELEASE,6.0.0)</spring.version>
+            <automaticModuleName>org.simplejavamail.spring</automaticModuleName>
+            <spring.version>[4.3.18.RELEASE,6.0.0)</spring.version>
+            <spring.boot.version>2.5.15</spring.boot.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -51,6 +52,33 @@
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <!-- spring boot support (build scope only, used to generate spring-configuration-metadata.json for IDE hints)-->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
+            <optional>true</optional>
+            <version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
+            <optional>true</optional>
+            <version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+
+
         <!-- spring testing -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
@@ -59,4 +87,22 @@
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <annotationProcessorPaths>
+                        <path>
+                            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
+                            <version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
+                        </path>
+                    </annotationProcessorPaths>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
 </project>