[sakai2-tcc] Discuss: should we be using lombok in Sakai?

[Steve Swinsburg]

The latest version supports javadocs for getters and setters.

Cheers,
S

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On 15/08/2013, at 19:07, Matthew Buckett <matthew.buckett at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>> 
>> people right now, then I think a little helper library that makes code
>> elegant and easy to read is acceptable.
> 
> I agree that if you have the IDE plugin installed and have used lombok
> before this is true.
> 
> With most code being read many more times than it's written I tend to
> prefer that a little gets in the way of people understanding what the
> code is doing and see lombok generally as a extra barrier.
> 
> I don't feel strongly either way but personally tend to prefer code
> without lombok.
> 
> As Noah said I don't think we should mandate this either way for tool
> developers. When Lombok gets used in core APIs then I think the maven
> sources JARs also end up with the lombok annotations in them so it
> becomes a bit more infectious as you won't be able to find the source
> for some parts of a class. Does lombok provide anywhere to put the
> documentation if you no longer have the getter and setter?
> 
> -- 
>  Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford