FWIW, I plan to help with auto anyway. If you have problems trying it out, cc me on the github issue.
-A On Nov 14, 2013 10:42 PM, "Andrew Gaul" <g...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:11:35AM -0800, Andrew Gaul wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:36:26AM -0800, Jeremy Daggett wrote: > > > Hi devs, > > > > > > Has anyone in the community ever looked at using Project Lombok[1] to > help > > > simplify our source code? I stumbled across this a couple of years > back > > > and thought it was pretty useful. Just never had a chance to use it > with > > > anything... > > > > > > I think that the @Builder [2], @EqualsHashCode, and other annotations > could > > > make many of our classes much simpler. We might be able to get rid of > all > > > of that boilerplate code! ;) > > > > > > WDYT? > > > > > > [1] http://projectlombok.org/ > > > [2] > > > > https://github.com/rzwitserloot/lombok/blob/master/src/core/lombok/experimental/Builder.java > > > > -1, I find that the Java annotation magic libraries tend to create more > > problems than they solve. Specifically, they make debugging more > > difficult and introduce performance problems like JCLOUDS-358. Further > > these dialects make code hard to approach for casual developers. > > Still not in favor of magic, but Google recently released AutoValue, a > less invasive annotation approach to value types, including getters: > > https://github.com/google/auto > http://goo.gl/Ter394 > > Auto has some issues but holds promise; we should keep an eye on it. > > -- > Andrew Gaul > http://gaul.org/ >
