toolisticon/bean-builder

An annotation processor to create Builder classes for POJOs (Example project for the annotation processor toolkit)

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Allow bean creation with final fields

It must be possible to create beans with final fields.

Final fields are usually initialized via constructor parameters.
Algorithm must try to map parameters via name.
Otherwise it could be explicitely mapped via an annotation on constructor parameters

Constraints:

• Class must not have a noarg constructor
• Constructor must not have any parameters which can't be mapped to (constant) fields or to super classes

Immutable Builder

Builder should be immutable.

Add annotation for creating BeanBuilders for existing classes

It could be really useful to generate Bean-Builder instances for existing classes.
This can become quite handy for implementing unit tests, since builders could be generated in test classpath scope

Therefore we need an annotation which can be applied in a package-info.java file.
It should take the following attributes:

• Classes[] to define for which classes those beanbuilder should be build

Bean-Builders should be created with package private visibility scope.

By doing so BeanBuilders can also be created for already compiled classes.

Explicitly configure package and Classname of Builder class

Per default the same package of the bean and the bean class name suffixed with Builder is used for builder class.

It should be possible to overwrite this in the Builder annotation

Allow bean creation with inherited fields

Add unit tests

Need to add explicit unit tests (Most things are currently implicitely tested via the examples project).