Explyt AI Actions

Explyt AI Actions

AI-augmented Spring actions that automate routine work inside the IDE — generating entities from a schema, DTOs from entities, OpenAPI from controllers, .http files from curl, and more. The AI proposes the result in the assistant chat (and may ask clarifying questions), so you stay in control.

Requirements. Both plugins must be installed: Explyt Spring + the Explyt AI assistant plugin — get it from explyt.ai or the JetBrains Marketplace (plugin 27979). AI integration requires IntelliJ Platform 2025.1+. Works with OpenAI-compatible providers or local models — result quality depends on the model.

Looking for the Spring-aware tools that expose project context to external AI agents (via the JetBrains MCP Server)? Those are different — see MCP Tools.

Two ways to invoke

1. Right-click menu — in the editor or the Project view, right-click a file → Explyt Spring AI Actions → pick a conversion. Several files can be selected for the DTO ↔ Entity conversions.
2. Gutter AI icon — an AI-assistant icon appears in the gutter next to annotated class declarations, offering the actions relevant to that class (see the trigger column below).

Actions

Data & JPA

Action (menu label)	What it does	Where
Convert Liquibase/Flyway File to Entity	Generate JPA @Entity classes from a Liquibase/Flyway/SQL schema file.	Right-click a migration/SQL file
Convert Entity to Db Script	Reverse direction — generate a DB migration script from an entity. Detects the app's database and migration tool (Liquibase/Flyway) and adds that to the prompt.	Right-click an entity · gutter on @Entity
Convert Entity to DTO	Generate DTO classes from JPA entities; the AI understands context and can exclude fields or add validation annotations.	Right-click an entity · gutter on @Entity
Convert DTO to Entity	Reverse direction — generate JPA entities from DTO classes.	Right-click a DTO

Need equals/hashCode for an entity? That generator is not AI — it ships in the Spring plugin under Code → Generate (proxy-safe Hibernate approach). See Code Generations.

Web & API

Action (menu label)	What it does	Where
Convert Spring Controller to OpenAPI File	Analyze a controller's endpoints, parameters, and DTO models and generate an OpenAPI specification.	Right-click a controller · gutter on @Controller/@RestController
Convert OpenAPI File to Spring Controller	Reverse direction — scaffold Spring REST controllers from an OpenAPI spec (handy for integrating with third-party services).	Right-click an OpenAPI file

HTTP requests

Action (menu label)	What it does	Where
Convert Curl to Http	Convert a curl command into an RFC 7230 .http/.rest request and append it to an IntelliJ HTTP file.	Right-click
Convert Postman Collection to Http	Convert a Postman collection into RFC 7230 .http/.rest requests.	Right-click

Run the resulting files with the built-in runner — see .http / .rest files (RFC 7230).

Config formats

Action (menu label)	What it does	Where
Convert Properties to YAML	Convert a Spring .properties file to YAML (comments preserved).	Right-click a .properties file
Convert YAML to Properties	Reverse direction — YAML → .properties.	Right-click a .yml/.yaml file

Handy after Spring Initializr, which generates application.properties — convert it to YAML in one step.

Spring config generation (gutter on @SpringBootApplication)

The AI-assistant gutter icon on your @SpringBootApplication class offers:

Action	What it does
Generate Kafka Config	Generate a Spring Kafka configuration, adding the spring-kafka dependency if needed.
Generate Security Config	Generate a Spring Security configuration (adds spring-security if needed). The assistant first asks which authentication you want — Basic, DAO, JWT, OAuth2, or LDAP — then generates accordingly.

These are a guaranteed-to-compile starting point (boilerplate); the assistant can refine them further in chat.

Gutter trigger reference

The gutter AI icon shows different actions depending on the class annotation:

Annotation on the class	Gutter actions
@SpringBootApplication	Generate Kafka Config · Generate Security Config
@Controller / @RestController	Convert Spring Controller to OpenAPI File
@Entity (JPA)	Convert Entity to DTO · Convert Entity to Db Script

Demo

spring-ai-action.mp4

Learn more

• Neural Networks in Spring Development: Eliminating Routine, Not Intelligence (RU)
• Explyt AI Platform and integrated agents (RU)

See also: MCP Tools · Features · Code Generations