What are some things and language features you use to reduce writing/time spent on boilerplate?
I've been working on a greenfield project lately and noticing how tedious it is to create entities, domain models, request/response objects, dtos, when they're all really just pojos. There are also other things that are redundant/boilerplate like.
I'm wondering what new language features, libraries, and other things you add into your coding to reduce time spent on writing boilerplate?
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I personally use amazonQ or Git copilot for the boiler plate code of the unit testing or for the autocomplete
Do you like tell Copilot here's ajson of an object, convert it to all these different type of objects? haha
I just realized I should have probably tried that instead of manually creating all the fields and types myself
There are also json to pojo converters online
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Warning: abusing this will result in moderative actions taken against you.Project Lombok is nice for a lot of boilerplate elimination. You use annotations to generate getters, setters, and constructors, and it comes with a lot of other interesting features such as an annotation to generate a Builder for any class.
On the other hand the way how Lombok is doing that is not nice - modifying AST during annotations processing. I just saw a very nice presentation about this topic and basically JDK will close some api on which Lombok is relying on. So the developers will have a hard time maintaining this project...
Ah that could be a problem
It’s fine for now at least, and if it ever becomes obsolete they also have a “delombok” tool to undo everything
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