Why is EncoderContext final in the Java driver?

[Oleg Rekutin]

Hey folks,

I thought that extending EncoderContext to provide encoding-time information (e.g. type parametrization details for underlying encoders) to custom encoders would work well, but sadly EncoderContext is a final class!

Is there any good reason to make this class final? Is there any objection to making it NOT final so it can be extended? If so, I can open an issue w/ a PR.

Best,

Oleg Rekutin

[Wan Bachtiar]

Hi Oleg,

To better understand your use case, could you provide a sample custom codec implementation that would make use of the EncoderContext subclass ?

Regards,

Wan.