Clarify in documentation that Gson might cache strategy results #2215
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| @@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ public GsonBuilder setFieldNamingPolicy(FieldNamingPolicy namingConvention) { | |||
| * Configures Gson to apply a specific naming strategy to an object's fields during | |||
| * serialization and deserialization. | |||
| * | |||
| * <p>The Gson instance might only use the field naming strategy once for a field and | |||
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I think I would use {@link Gson} here to make it clear that we are talking about the class here (in the previous paragraph we are talking about Gson the project).
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I had a similar concern, being afraid that users might think Gson statically (for all Gson instances) caches the results. That is why I chose "Gson instance", but I have now changed it to "The created Gson instance". In the context of this builder I hope this should be clear enough.
In this specific line where you added the comment I don't think a {@link Gson} would be needed. The previous paragraph is also about the Gson instance and not about specifying a naming strategy globally. Or did I misunderstand you?
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This is fine now. I would probably use {@link} or {@code} every time we're talking about Gson the class, since Gson is also the name of the project. But that's probably overly fussy.
Resolves #2205
Maybe it could also be considered whether that behavior could be customized in the future, but for now it might suffice to document it.
Feedback, especially regarding the wording, is appreciated!