[HADOOP-12194] Support for incremental generation in the protoc plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.6-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Target Version/s: 2.8.0
• Assignee: Andrew Wang
• Reporter: Andrew Wang
• Created: 06/Jul/15 22:56
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:25
• Resolved: 08/Jul/15 18:12

Description

The protoc maven plugin currently generates new Java classes every time, which means Maven always picks up changed files in the build. It would be better if the protoc plugin only generated new Java classes when the source protoc files change.