Sylwester Lachiewicz created THRIFT-6387:
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Summary: Compiler: option to prepend a license header to every
generated file
Key: THRIFT-6387
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-6387
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Compiler (General)
Reporter: Sylwester Lachiewicz
Projects that check generated code into their repositories must either add a
license header to each generated file or exclude the files from license checks:
* Apache Accumulo post-processes every generated Java, C++, Python and Ruby
file in
[core/src/main/scripts/generate-thrift.sh|https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/main/core/src/main/scripts/generate-thrift.sh]
to prepend the Apache license header in each language's comment syntax.
* Apache HBase excludes {{**/generated/**}} from RAT in its root pom.xml;
hbase-thrift checks in 41 generated thrift2 classes.
* Apache Hive checks in 368 generated metastore classes under
{{standalone-metastore/metastore-common/src/gen/thrift}}.
A compiler option, for example {{--header <file>}}, that writes the given text
as a comment at the top of every generated file, before the "Autogenerated by
Thrift Compiler" banner, would remove the post-processing step and the
exclusions. Each generator already writes that banner in its own comment
syntax, which is where such a header would go.
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