Initializer Project

Create a new initializer expansion resource project.

• Expansion resource: net.democritus.initializer:initializer-initializer@4.38.0
• Command: nsinit initializer

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Overview

The initializer project initializer is an initializer bundle which is used to create new initializer expansion resource projects.

This initializer can provision a very comprehensive setup for a new initializer project containing the following:

• A Maven project for the expansion resource and the Maven project directory structure.
• A data resources index file, as well as a ProjectType data resource to define the initializer project type and its arguments.
• Empty ProjectDataResolver and InteractiveModeHandler implementation classes that are defined in the ProjectType.
• Some typical project files are generated, such as README.md and CHANGELOG.md as stub files to be filled out by the user. Also an EditorConfig file with a basic setup for clean editing of the files in the repository is generated.

Generated files

• pom.xml Maven project file with the name of the output directory as the artifactId.
• .gitignore file to ignore any known files that should not be committed to a Git repository.
• .editorconfig file with some basic standard rules for formatting code in files.
• README.md file to provide some basic information about the project.
• CHANGELOG.md file to document changes to the project.
• ProjectDataResolver.java file to implement logic to determine default argument values for the project type's arguments.
• ProjectInteractiveModeHandler.java file to implement the interactive mode to prompt the user with specific questions.
• projectTypes.xml file to define the model containing all the arguments available for the project.
• _data.xml file to list any data resources used in the expansion resource, such as the projectTypes.xml file.

Parameters

For an overview, run nsinit app -h.

Option	Description
-h, --help	Returns the help with an overview of all commands.
--groupid, --group-id	The groupId for the pom.xml Maven project file.
--artifactid	The artifactId for the pom.xml Maven project file.
-D	Allows you to set any argument or flag defined for the project type, even those that are implicit. For an argument, the key should be prefixed by arg. and for a flag with flag.. E.g.: -Darg.artifactId=test-expanders
-o, --output	The directory where the project should be generated, rather than the current directory.
-y, --yes-to-all	Disables the interactive mode and accepts defaults for all settings that were not specified as arguments.
-f, --force	Forces the creation of the project, even when the output directory is not empty.

Example

nsinit initializer -y -o test-initializer --groupid com.example

Resulting project:

test-initializer/
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── .editorconfig
├── pom.xml
├── README.md
└── src
    ├── main
    │   ├── java
    │   │   └── com
    │   │       └── example
    │   │           └── template
    │   │               └── test
    │   │                   ├── TestProjectDataResolver.java
    │   │                   └── TestProjectInteractiveModeHandler.java
    │   └── resources
    │       └── data
    │           └── initializer
    │               ├── _data.xml
    │               └── projectTypes.xml
    └── test
        ├── java
        └── resources