Feature Request: Expose Builder for generated types about dgs-codegen HOT 10 CLOSED

The generated types already come with a builder. We don't plan to support additional builders since this is not a common use case for us.

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@srinivasankavitha Could you give an example of how to use the builder? I don't see anything in Intellijs auto complete or on the docs.

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If I understand correctly, you are referring to building the generated POJOs, correct? If you take a look at one of the generated classes, you would see a builder for each class.

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This is for the generated POJO, but when looking at the generated type i don't see a builder, in Intellij nothing also comes up in the auto complete for making a builder

import com.fasterxml.jackson.`annotation`.JsonProperty
import kotlin.Boolean
import kotlin.Int
import kotlin.String
import kotlin.collections.List

public data class InterviewIG(
  @JsonProperty("id")
  public val id: Int,
  @JsonProperty("employer")
  public val employer: Employer? = null,
  @JsonProperty("userQuestions")
  public val userQuestions: List<InterviewUserQuestionIG?>? = null,
  @JsonProperty("employerResponses")
  public val employerResponses: List<InterviewEmployerResponse?>? = null,
  /**
   * Link building is resolved by the ui using seo central
   */
  @JsonProperty("links")
  public val links: EiInterviewLinks? = null,
) {
  public companion object
}

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What do you mean by generated type?

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Sorry I mean in my schema I'll have a type called

type InterviewIG and when generated it will have the code above, but I don't see a builder anywhere

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Ah ok, this is for kotlin. We generate builders for Java classes. For kotlin, they are generated as data classes, so easy enough to instantiate them since you have named arguments and default values.

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Oh is there a way to configure the code Gen to generate Java classes instead of kotlin, I didn't know that was an option it's just always been generating kotlin for me.

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Ah ok thanks I'll give that a try. I think having a builder is more useful then a data class because it allows you to more easily spread the construction of the object given various conditions throughout a method vs needing all the variables in one place.

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