[AVRO-2069] Use primitive fields in generated getters & setters in Java code

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Daniil Gitelson
• Reporter: Daniil Gitelson
• Created: 29/Aug/17 09:13
• Updated: 22/Jul/22 19:55
• Resolved: 10/Dec/18 21:54

Description

Currently, for primitive types (such as int, long, etc) generated getters and setters return and accept java.lang.* boxed (while fields actually holds primitive values). This is inefeccient and produces code boilerplate.

Changed this behaviour in pull request:
https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/243

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #243
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #243