I would like to figure out how to make SpecificRecord and GenericRecord immutable in the longer term (or as an option with the code generation and/or builder). The builder is the first step, but setters are the enemy. Is there a way to do this that does not introduce new mutators for all SpecificRecords?
On 4/15/13 3:43 PM, "Doug Cutting" <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christophe Taton <ta...@wibidata.com> >wrote: >> If you think it's a meaningful addition, I'm happy to make the change. > >The two methods I wrote above could be added to SpecificRecordBase and >it could then be declared to implement GenericRecord. > >I think GenericRecordBuilder could be used to build specific records >with a few additional changes: > - change the type of the 'record' field from GenericData.Record to >GenericRecord. > - replace the call to 'new GenericData.Record()' to >'(GenericRecord)data().newRecord(null, schema())' > - add a constructor that accepts a GenericData instance, instead of >calling GenericData.get(). > >Then you could use new GenericRecordBuilder(SpecificData.get(), >schema) to create specific records. > >Doug
