How mica-auto Simplifies Spring Boot Starter Configuration in Mica Microservices

mica-auto is a basic component of the Mica Spring Cloud microservice framework that generates essential Spring Boot starter configurations.

Usage Scenarios

It mainly prevents package inconsistencies between the main Spring Boot project and its sub‑projects or modules, ensuring proper component scanning.

Custom Spring Boot starter.

Multi‑module projects where sub‑projects should not include mica-auto in the main project.

Features

Generate spring.factories.

Generate spring-devtools.properties.

Generate FeignClient entries in spring.factories for automatic Feign configuration in mica-pro.

Usage

Note: If your project uses Lombok, place the mica-auto dependency after Lombok.

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.dreamlu</groupId>
  <artifactId>mica-auto</artifactId>
  <version>${version}</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Gradle >= 5.x

annotationProcessor("net.dreamlu:mica-auto:${version}")

Gradle < 5.x

compileOnly "net.dreamlu:mica-auto:${version}"

Diagrams

Adding Dependency

Dependency Build

Build Process

Principle

It scans @Component annotations and automatically generates the corresponding configuration, supporting composite annotations.

Open Source License

LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) – allows commercial software to link against the library without open‑sourcing the commercial code, but modifications to the library itself must remain under LGPL.

User Rights

Free to use without source changes for learning, theses, company projects, freelance work, etc.

Modifications that remain closed‑source require the author’s permission.

When referencing, cite: mica-auto https://github.com/lets-mica/mica-auto

References

Google Auto: https://github.com/google/auto

Spring 5 – spring-context-indexer: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/tree/master/spring-context-indexer

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