Hi, team. The fantastic folks at Google Auto have a tool that can significantly improve readability and maintainability of our value types. They also have a tool that removes the need to manually maintain serviceloader manifests. All of this magic has no runtime dependency! That means no more s/MoreObjects/Objects!
The catch is that I've only tried on an XML provider, so we may still need work to get gson going. Also, if you haven't setup your IDE for annotation processing, you'll need to do that. Anyway, here's an example to look at, where I ported Azure to use auto. https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/pull/100 I hope we can make more progress like this such that high quality providers are easier to write, and with less chance of classpath conflicts! Cheers, -A
