Less strict builder

[Germán Ferrari]

Hi.

I would want to use the generated builders as "form backing objects" in Spring MVC views.

The problem I'm having is that the builder throws IllegalStateException when getting a property that is not set, but in this case it would be "useful" if it returned null instead, and do the checks only when the "build" method is called.

It this possible now?
If not: what do you think of having an option to generate this kind of less strict builders?

Thank you very much :)

Regards.
Germán.

[Chris Purcell]

Hi Germán!

Thanks for this feature request! I've opened https://github.com/google/FreeBuilder/issues/121 to track further discussion. If you have the inclination to submit a PR for this, I'd be very happy to review; otherwise, it may take a while to get prioritised.

Thanks!

Chris

[Germán Ferrari]

Ok. I will add further comments on the linked issue.

Thanks!