What is ${CRNK_VERSION}?

[CodingItWrong]

I had a bit of trouble with ${CRNK_VERSION} mentioned in the Get Started. I haven't done Java development in several years, so maybe it's just my lack of familiarity.

Here's the thought process I went through:

• I took the code from Get Started as is, but my IDE complained that CRNK_VERSION was not defined.
• I wasn't sure where to get a value for CRNK_VERSION, so I searched for crnk-bom on jcenter and found the list of versions
• I wasn't sure how to define a variable, so instead I just hard-coded it.

So I ended up with:

mavenBom "io.crnk:crnk-bom:2.11.20190113153635"

(It seems like there are newer versions, I'm not sure why I ended up with that exact version number.)

To help new users onboard, I think it would be great to provide an instruction in Get Started, maybe a link to jcenter and telling them to find the latest version. Or can this line be configured without listing a specific version?

[remmeier]

it was only supposed to be a placeholder for the real version. Sorry, myself doing too much Java the past few years. It would be much better to replace the version if the current one (ideally automatically).

In general I can recommend http://www.crnk.io/releases/v3.0/. Even tough it is labeled "BETA", it is perfectly fine to use. There are only a few cleanups pending of deprecated API. And it flips to a new set of defaults that make a quite a number of use cases much simpler. crnk-example has been already udpated as well.