Github user tomatophantastico commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metamodel/pull/148
Imho, would not refer to utility classs in general as an anti-pattern, you
really have to look at it use-case dependent.
In this case however, i agree that Metamodelhelper should be replaced.
MetamodelHelper appears to do two things:
(a)
Execute some relation operation on the QueryPostprocessDataContext
(order/group/join/...)
(b)
Deal with the usage of array/List/Iterable in apis
I suggest for clearing things up, i move (a) first in a separate static
class. From there on more profound ways for executing those operations can be
defined.
For dealing with (b): Some of them are not used in MM anyway, so they might
be as well deleted in MM 6.x.x, may deprecate them in MM 5.x.x?
For the other, i would really prefer to clean up the api and switch to
Collection/Lists/Sets and Streams instead of arrays and iterables instead of
those conversion/filtering methods.
This is also rather big, so MM 6.x.x
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