Jhipster import-jdl not generating entities

Question

I am running into a problem with import-jdl and I am not sure why it is not working. I am trying to generate entities for microservices application.

All I get is

The jdl is being imported.

but nothing else.

I used the sample https://jhipster.github.io/jdl-studio/ entity provided by JDL without any modification.

I have tried this in my Mac, Linux (Ubuntu), and Docker container but I get the same error.

Here are the versions of the software:

JHipster Generator: v3.3.0
npm : 3.9.2
yo : 1.8.3

Microservices Application

------- Application files will be generated in folder: /Users/anand/Desktop/jhexample

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JHipster update available: 3.4.0 (current: 3.3.0) Run npm install -g generator-jhipster to update. ______________________________________________________________________________

? (1/16) Which type of application would you like to create? Microservice application

? (2/16) What is the base name of your application? jhexample

? (3/16) As you are running in a microservice architecture, on which port would like your server to run? It should be unique to avoid port conflicts. 8081

? (4/16) What is your default Java package name? com.anand

? (5/16) Which type of authentication would you like to use? JWT authentication (stateless, with a token)

? (6/16) Which type of database would you like to use? MongoDB

? (7/16) Would you like to use Maven or Gradle for building the backend? Maven

? (8/16) Would you like to enable internationalization support? No

? (9/16) Which testing frameworks would you like to use? (Press to select)Gatling

...snip...

Server app generated successfully.

anand$ yo jhipster:import-jdl ./jhipster-jdl.jh

The jdl is being imported.

Answer 1

I've faced the same situation: The jdl is being imported but nothing is generated. As Vikas Joshi suggests try using jhipster-uml:

npm install -g jhipster-uml
jhipster-uml ./jhipster-jdl.jh -db mongodb

jhispter-uml usually returns more feedback. Anyway take into account that in MongoDB as noSQL database that it is, some options have no sense (e.g relations between entities).