Open alexandrenavarro opened 2 days ago
Thanks for opening the issue @alexandrenavarro.
Thinking about a potential solution, my idea is to add an additional parameter to the static toBuilder()
method in the case @Builder
was placed on a private method. This new parameter would be of the type of the abstract Builder class, instead of having it created inside the toBuilder()
method and stored in a local variable. This should solve the compilation error. And then, in the manually-written class, either write an instance version of toBuilder()
, or add a static one to the inner builder class.
So, something like this:
public final class User {
public final String email, username, firstName, lastName, displayName;
@Builder(style = BuilderStyle.STAGED, toBuilder = "toBuilder")
private User(String email, @Opt String username, String firstName,
String lastName, @Opt String displayName) {
this.email = email;
this.username = username == null ? email : username;
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
this.displayName = displayName == null
? firstName + " " + lastName
: displayName;
}
public final static class InnerBuilder extends UserBuilder {
private InnerBuilder() {
}
@Override
public User build() {
return new User(email, username, firstName, lastName, displayName);
}
}
public static UserBuilders.Email builder() {
return new InnerBuilder();
}
public InnerBuilder toBuilder() {
return UserBuilder.toBuilder(new InnerBuilder(), this);
}
}
Thoughts on this idea?
It seems a good solution.
Just for information, when the @Builder is on private constructor and the toBuilder() is activated, there are a compilation errors because it tries to instance the builder but it is abstract class. The builder() method is also not generated.
I don't have any elegant solution, one solution is passing the name of the concrete in the configuration of the annotation. Think about it if you find a better solution.
Clearly, it is a nice to have fix / feature not a blocking problem.
Thank you for your useful lib and don't hesitate if you have any questions.