[CRUNCH-612] Add support of private constructors to Avros.reflect

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: Core
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Josh Wills
• Reporter: Clément MATHIEU
• Created: 19/Jul/16 19:01
• Updated: 26/Feb/17 18:33
• Resolved: 29/Jul/16 21:55

Description

While Avro reflect supports private no-arg constructors since at least 1.4.0, see this test case, Crunch mandates this constructor to be public for deep copy. It seems like an unfortunate shortcoming rather than a conscious choice.

Since hiding the mandatory no-arg constructor can be quite useful to avoid API pollution, let's patch AvroDeepCopier to add support of private ctor.