Currently for STS 4.17.2

About Spring Boot for these two Application Properties

• spring.sql.init.schema-locations
• spring.sql.init.data-locations

When are declared in the application.properties file, when autocomplete is used, is expected that the optional: prefix appears too. But it does not happen.

For more details see the following specific comment:

• Document that scripts for database initialization are optional by default and how they can be made mandatory spring-boot#36176 (comment)

And for that specific comment read its next comment too - it for a better guidance about how it works behind the scene. The point is, if other Application Properties can work with this optional: prefix, it should be listed too.

Thanks for your understanding