Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have a project with the spring-cloud-starter-parent parent. This manages Spring Cloud and Spring Boot dependencies.
I use SpringDoc, and some modules have dependencies on Swagger modules only. To have SpringDoc manage the Swagger versions, I import the springdoc-openapi dependencies like this in dependencyManagement:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
<artifactId>springdoc-openapi</artifactId>
<version>${springdoc.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
Unfortunately, this doesn't only manage springdoc and Swagger dependencies, but also overrides Spring Boot's dependency management (since springdoc-openapi has spring-boot-starter-parent as a parent.
Right now, my workaround is to hardcode the version of spring-boot-dependencies in dependencyManagement.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>2.4.10</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
Describe the solution you'd like
A potential solution could be to create a separate springdoc-openapi-dependencies which I could import using the same version as other springdoc modules:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
<artifactId>springdoc-openapi-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>${springdoc.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
This module could solely manage the external dependencies not managed by Spring Boot (e.g. Swagger).