Marcus Christie created AIRAVATA-3328:
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Summary: Fix Thrift/Dozer incompatibilty in Java 11
Key: AIRAVATA-3328
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-3328
Project: Airavata
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Registry API
Reporter: Marcus Christie
Assignee: Marcus Christie
Thrift required fields can have a default value. This value is present in the
generated models, but it is only serialized if the field has actually been set.
The semantics on required fields with default values seems a little confusing.
This causes an issue with Dozer since it has logic to only copy fields when
they differ. A field on an entity will only copy to a Thrift data model field
when they have the same value. If the field on the entity has the default value
of the Thrift field, then it won't copy and that field will not get serialized.
This then causes a validation error in Thrift since the required field wasn't
set.
This problem was initially discoverred in AIRAVATA-3268, see [this
comment](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-3268?focusedCommentId=16978768&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16978768)
and following.
I think, as noted in [this
comment](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-3268?focusedCommentId=16979609&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16979609),
that we can create a [Dozer Custom Bean
Factory](https://dozermapper.github.io/gitbook/documentation/custombeanfactories.html)
to fix this.
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