[THRIFT-477] remove extra methods generated for collections

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.2
• Component/s: Java - Compiler
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
• Created: 01/May/09 21:27
• Updated: 01/Nov/11 02:54
• Resolved: 14/Dec/09 06:10

Description

For some reason, the java generator produces a bunch of extra methods whenever you have a field of a collection type. For instance if you have a field called "my_list", then you will get a "get_my_list_size()" method in addition to the standard getter and setter.

Personally I find these extra methods redundant, since all they save you is a pair of parentheses. I'd prefer to just get rid of them. Does anyone out there like or use these methods?