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Roadmap

Overview

SpringFlow is an actively developed open-source library. This page outlines what has been delivered and what is planned for future releases.

What's Available Now

Core Features (stable)

  • @AutoApi annotation for automatic REST API generation
  • Full CRUD endpoints (GET list, GET by id, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE)
  • Pagination and sorting
  • Automatic DTO generation (@Hidden, @ReadOnly)
  • JSR-380 validation with create/update groups
  • OpenAPI/Swagger documentation (via SpringDoc)
  • Dynamic filtering with @Filterable (12 filter operations)
  • Spring Security integration with role-based access control
  • Soft delete with @SoftDelete and restore support
  • Advanced DTO mapping (configurable depth, cycle detection)
  • Custom component detection (bring your own repository, service, or controller)
  • GraphQL support (schema generation, mutations, DataLoader for N+1 prevention)
  • Java 17+ and Kotlin support

Upcoming Features

Near-term

  • Audit trail — automatic population of createdAt, updatedAt, createdBy, updatedBy fields (metadata extraction is already done; field population is pending)
  • Monitoring & metrics — Spring Boot Actuator integration

Longer-term

  • Admin UI — auto-generated management interface (React/Vue)
  • CLI tool — project scaffolding helper
  • Multi-database support — MongoDB and other non-relational stores
  • IDE plugins — IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code extensions

Release History

See Changelog for the full list of releases and what changed in each version.

Contributing

Want to help? See Contributing to get started. Feature requests and bug reports are welcome on GitHub Issues.