Extending the DataFetcher code generator

[skorgs]

Hello,
First of all thank you for this awesome project!
We are trying to use code generation to reduce manual code for our developers. We use the generated types and data fetchers as the start of template, and then manually update those fetchers. Our implementation follow a model where all our fetchers call the same internal service. And most of our manual changes are basically copy paste from one fetcher to another. We were hoping to autogenerate this as well.
We looked at DatafetcherGenerator.kt, and were thinking of extending this in our project. It seems it is final. Our project is Java based (and I am not a Kotlin expert). Is there any way to extend this class to support our usecase? I looked at Kotlin extensions, but I have to define those methods as static in Java ? Are there other ways to extend? If not, is it possible to provide extension points (kotlin based or even gradle based)? I would appreciate any ideas here.
Thanks

[srinivasankavitha]

So you simply want to make this class extensible? You plan to fork the project and add your own specialized handling?

[skorgs]

I dont mind forking the project, but was hoping the class to be extensible in main. That way we don't have to worry about future releases to the main project.

[srinivasankavitha]

Makes sense, we can make that change.

[paulbakker]

Just making it non-final probably isn't enough, because the generator will not know about any custom implementation. So if we want to make this extensible (which would be fine), it requires a bit more work.

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