AutoValue Release 1.4 RC1

Functional changes since 1.3

• @Memoized added, allowing non-property methods to be run-once and have the results cached.

  • @Memoized methods are guarded double-checked locking (a756ee6)

  • Very tentatively support using @LazyInit from github.com/google/error-prone as a just-in-time alternative
    to @Memoized)

    Note: This is internally tested, but is experimental, and doesn't have any serious testing in open-source.

• Ignore concrete methods in abstract-class builders when scanning to discover auto-value properties. (07d6fdd)
• Stop "pessimizing" arrays by pre-sizing them (nearly all VMs perform better without this) (82041d0)
• AutoValue now imports top-level types, and references nested types in a qualified way. (e.g. Foo.Bar)

Extension API changes since 1.3

• Introduce null-checks into generated classes' constructors, to guard against poorly crafted extensions. (660ea56)
• Guard against corrupt extension jar loading (4a052a8)

Bugs fixed since 1.3

• Fix @AutoAnnotation issue when passing in generic-array-parameter values using a collection. (82041d0)
• Some fixes inherited from an updated auto-common related to eclipse and ecj
• Guard against IOExceptions from reading resources from jars. Fixes #365
• Improved support for dealing with Java8 bytecode on the classpath (using ASM5)

Random stuff

• Source import statements re-ordered according to Google's new (simplified) standard format.
• Example code for builders uses "setFoo(Foo foo)" naming for clarity (not required in production code.)
• Faster jar creation on ubuntu during builds.