diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/appendix-configuration-metadata.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/appendix-configuration-metadata.adoc index 899c323cc7..65178aba0d 100644 --- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/appendix-configuration-metadata.adoc +++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/appendix-configuration-metadata.adoc @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ The JSON object contained in the `properties` array can contain the attributes d | `type` | String -| The full signature of the data type of the property (for example, `java.lang.String`) but also a full generic type (such as `java.util.Map`). +| The full signature of the data type of the property (for example, `java.lang.String`) but also a full generic type (such as `java.util.Map`). You can use this attribute to guide the user as to the types of values that they can enter. For consistency, the type of a primitive is specified by using its wrapper counterpart (for example, `boolean` becomes `java.lang.Boolean`). Note that this class may be a complex type that gets converted from a `String` as values are bound.