I am a happy Netbeans user for about 3 years now. For a long time I've been
working for a single Gradle-managed Spring Boot project and had developed a
certain workflow I was enjoying. Right now I am using NetBeans 10 and I am
pretty much satisfied with it (Except for a slow pop-up appearance when you do
method autocomplete but I got used to it).
So, at the top left corner there is a select-box where I can choose an active
profile. I created 3 profiles where I provided Spring's spring.profiles.active
setting through Custom Variables Category(or tab whatever). Now I can choose
some profile and press F6 to run the project with it. This is very useful to me
as I often change the database I need to work with(One profile runs with H2 and
another with Mysql). Also It is very convenient to just press one key and
project always runs with the selected profile.
Recently I decided to give it a shot with Netbeans 12.0. Gradle configuration
has been changed drastically. There is no more Profiles selectbox for Gradle
projects. I discovered I can add a custom task by stating some current task and
provide some additional parameters. But here are 2 problems with this approach:
1) It modifies my gradle.properties file (adds 2 properties action.custom-1,
action.custom-1.args) and it is under version control. Now I must talk to the
project manager and ask for permission to commit the changes. I do not think he
would be happy to have some Netbeans specific properties in the configuration
considering only me in our team uses Netbeans. I rather liked the old approach
where all this additional stuff was saved in a Gradle Plugin config files which
were excluded from Git.
2) And most important one. How would I run my custom Task with a key
combination? When I press F6 always the default bootRun Spring Boot task is
executed. I always have to press the right mouse button and select the desired
Task from a context menu.
Considering all of that, it is not so comfortable to work with Gradle projects
anymore. Seems like a regression to me, so I stay for Netbeans 10 for now.
And my question is. Is there a way to improve it? Maybe I am missing something?
Is it possible to bring the profile selection back in some future NetBeans
versions?
