How to set properly the working directory in Spring projects?

[EgorkaKulikov]

Having the proper value of working directory during Spring project analysis is very important. For example, file: annotations processing is aliased on the working directory.

Currently Project.baseDir property from Intellij psi elements hierarchy is used as working directory. However, documentation says that it is not reliable.

• What should we do in the case of mismatch? Should we inform user that he can not only increase timeout, but also change the working directory value?
• How can we give a chance to change the value? With settings tab? Or we should not do it at all because harmful effects may be stronger?

[alisevych]

Additional questions:

• Can we get the value from Maven/Gradle?
• It is about correct user.dir, correct? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/io/File.html