[FEATURE] More @Value options

[Marco-Sulla]

I really love the @Value annotation. But sometimes I need to not use @ToString and @EqualsAndHashCode for recursion problems. It's tedious to deactivate fields that cause recursion; so, since 99% of times I don't need them, I'm forced to not use @Value. It's more simple.

Furthermore, I don't want the class to be final at all. I prefer to have and let the freedom to use the class as a parent class.

Usually I use this annotations for DTOs. And I need other DTOs that are identical to a base class but a bunch of fields to be able to extend the base DTO. I feel tedious to write anytime @Getter @AllArgsConstructor @FieldDefaults(makeFinal = true, level = AccessLevel.PRIVATE).

Maybe it could be something like:

@Value(toString=false, eqHash=false, isFinal=false)

PS: since all fields are final, is there any difference between using @AllArgsConstructor and RequiredArgsConstructor?

[Marco-Sulla]

Another reason: when using this annotation with a subclass, the IDE complain you should add also @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true) (or false). It's annoying and add boilerplate, that lombok should avoid ;)

PS: all these considerations can be applied to @Data too, but I prefer to restrict this issue to @Value. Not much interested in setters ;)