[AVRO-1209] Include immutable source templates with Maven plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.3
• Component/s: java
• Release Note: Allows for the creation of immutable specific record generated classes.
• Assignee: Jeff Kolesky
• Reporter: Jeff Kolesky
• Created: 19/Nov/12 22:59
• Updated: 10/Dec/12 17:57
• Resolved: 29/Nov/12 22:08

Description

It would be nice to have mostly immutable classes generated by the Maven plugin for the cases when people want to use Avro specific records as their first class model objects and want some assurances of immutability. An easy way to accomplish this is with another template set that can be shipped with the compiler artifact. Since the templateDirectory of the plugin is already configurable, then to use this one must only change their local configuration.

This is somewhat related to AVRO-988, but I have removed the field setters in addition to making the fields private.