Spring Framework

Spring Framework Generation API

The Generation API from Spring Framework — 2 operation(s) for generation.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Spring Initializr Generation API
  description: The Spring Initializr API provides programmatic access to project generation for Spring Boot applications. It exposes metadata about available dependencies, build systems, languages, and Java versions, as well as an endpoint to generate project archives (ZIP) with the selected configuration.
  version: 0.21.0
  contact:
    name: Spring Team
    url: https://github.com/spring-io/start.spring.io
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: https://start.spring.io
  description: Official Spring Initializr instance
tags:
- name: Generation
paths:
  /starter.zip:
    get:
      operationId: generateProject
      summary: Generate Project Archive
      description: Generates and downloads a Spring Boot project archive as a ZIP file with the specified configuration.
      tags:
      - Generation
      parameters:
      - name: type
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - maven-project
          - gradle-project
          - gradle-kotlin-project
          default: maven-project
        description: Build system type
      - name: language
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - java
          - kotlin
          - groovy
          default: java
      - name: bootVersion
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Spring Boot version (e.g., 3.3.0)
      - name: baseDir
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: demo
        description: Base directory name within the ZIP
      - name: groupId
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: com.example
      - name: artifactId
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: demo
      - name: name
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: demo
      - name: description
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: packageName
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: com.example.demo
      - name: packaging
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - jar
          - war
          default: jar
      - name: javaVersion
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - '21'
          - '17'
          - '11'
          default: '21'
      - name: dependencies
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        description: Comma-separated dependency IDs (e.g., web,data-jpa,security)
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Project ZIP archive
          content:
            application/zip:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: binary
          headers:
            Content-Disposition:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: attachment; filename="demo.zip"
  /starter.tgz:
    get:
      operationId: generateProjectTgz
      summary: Generate Project Archive (TGZ)
      description: Generates and downloads a Spring Boot project as a TGZ archive
      tags:
      - Generation
      parameters:
      - name: type
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: language
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: bootVersion
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: groupId
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: artifactId
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: dependencies
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Project TGZ archive
          content:
            application/x-compress:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: binary