jhipster ci-cd prompts for unnecessary answers

[mraible]

Overview of the issue

I ran jhipster ci-cd after creating a new demo app tonight and it asked me far too many questions.

Motivation for or Use Case

It used to be much easier.

Reproduce the error

Run jhipster ci-cd in a new v8 project.

JHipster Version(s)

[email protected] /Users/mraible/dev/jhipster8-demo
└── [email protected]

JHipster configuration, a .yo-rc.json file generated in the root folder

.yo-rc.json file

{
  "generator-jhipster": {
    "applicationType": "monolith",
    "authenticationType": "jwt",
    "baseName": "blog",
    "buildTool": "maven",
    "cacheProvider": "ehcache",
    "clientFramework": "angular",
    "clientTestFrameworks": [
      "cypress"
    ],
    "clientTheme": "none",
    "creationTimestamp": 1702525034689,
    "cypressAudit": true,
    "cypressCoverage": true,
    "databaseType": "sql",
    "devDatabaseType": "h2Disk",
    "devServerPort": 4200,
    "enableGradleEnterprise": null,
    "enableHibernateCache": true,
    "enableSwaggerCodegen": false,
    "enableTranslation": true,
    "entities": [
      "Blog",
      "Post",
      "Tag"
    ],
    "feignClient": false,
    "gradleEnterpriseHost": null,
    "herokuAppName": "jhipster8-demo",
    "herokuDeployType": "git",
    "herokuJavaVersion": "21",
    "jhipsterVersion": "8.1.0",
    "languages": [
      "en",
      "es"
    ],
    "lastLiquibaseTimestamp": 1702525214000,
    "messageBroker": false,
    "microfrontend": null,
    "microfrontends": [],
    "nativeLanguage": "en",
    "packageName": "org.jhipster.blog",
    "prodDatabaseType": "postgresql",
    "reactive": false,
    "searchEngine": false,
    "serverPort": null,
    "serverSideOptions": [],
    "serviceDiscoveryType": false,
    "testFrameworks": [
      "cypress"
    ],
    "websocket": false,
    "withAdminUi": true
  }
}

Environment and Tools

openjdk version "21" 2023-09-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21+35-2513)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21+35-2513, mixed mode, sharing)

git version 2.39.3 (Apple Git-145)

node: v18.18.2
npm: 9.8.1

Docker version 24.0.7, build afdd53b

JDL for the Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

JDL entity definitions

@ChangelogDate("20231214033814")
entity Blog {
  name String required minlength(3)
  handle String required minlength(2)
}
@ChangelogDate("20231214033914")
entity Post {
  title String required
  content TextBlob required
  date Instant required
}
@ChangelogDate("20231214034014")
entity Tag {
  name String required minlength(2)
}
relationship ManyToOne {
  Blog{user(login)} to User with builtInEntity
  Post{blog(name)} to Blog
}
relationship ManyToMany {
  Post{tag(name)} to Tag{post}
}

search Blog, Post, Tag with no
paginate Post, Tag with infinite-scroll

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[mraible]

Related: the actions that are generated by jhipster ci-cd need to be updated.

https://github.com/mraible/jhipster8-demo/pulls

[mraible]

Two minutes later, dependabot is aggressive!

[atomfrede]

It looks like a bug as the promp e.g. for inside docker is supposed to not being shown when selecting github actions:

generator-jhipster/generators/ci-cd/command.ts

Line 82 in a9517b2

when: includesValue('ciCd', ['jenkins', 'gitlab']),