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Subject: [jira] [Created] (AVRO-1614) Always getting a value...
From: "Niels Basjes (JIRA)" <jira () apache ! org>
Date: 2014-11-27 15:36:13
Message-ID: JIRA.12758248.1417102571000.35315.1417102573045 () Atlassian ! JIRA
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Niels Basjes created AVRO-1614:
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Summary: Always getting a value...
Key: AVRO-1614
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1614
Project: Avro
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: java
Reporter: Niels Basjes
Sometimes the Avro structure becomes deeply nested.
If in such a scenario you want to be able to set a specific value deep in this tree \
you want to do this:
public void setSomething(String value) {
myStruct
.getFoo()
.getBar()
.getOne()
.getOther()
.setSomething(value);
}
The 'problem' I ran into is that any of the 4 get methods can return a null value so \
the code I have to write is really huge. For every step in this method I have to \
build null checks and create the underlying instance if it is null. I already started \
writing helper methods to do this for parts of my tree.
To solve this in a way that makes this code readable I came up with the following \
which I want to propose to you guys (before I start working on a patch).
My idea is to generate a new 'get' method in addition to the existing normal get \
method for the regular instance of the class.
So in addition to the
public Foo getFoo() {
return foo;
}
I propose to generate something like this as well in the cases where this is a type \
of structure that you may want to traverse as shown in the example.
public Foo getAlwaysFoo() {
if (foo == null) {
setFoo(Foo.newBuilder().build());
}
return foo;
}
This way the automatically created instance immediately has all the defaults I have \
defined.
Assuming this naming my code will be readable because it will look like this:
public void setSomething(String value) {
myStruct
.getAlwaysFoo()
.getAlwaysBar()
.getAlwaysOne()
.getAlwaysOther()
.setSomething(value);
}
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