[MAILBOX-399] SearchQuery should be immutable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: master
• Fix Version/s: 3.6.0
• Component/s: api
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benoit Tellier
• Created: 02/Jun/20 03:23
• Updated: 03/Jun/20 07:21
• Resolved: 03/Jun/20 07:21

Description

While working on JAMES-3182 I realized the SearchQuery object is mutable and thus can change upon processing.

Clearly, this is a non desirable, potentially buggy behaviour, we should make that SearchQuery immutable.

Proposition is to leverage the builder pattern to do so.