Netflix / Netflix/dgs-codegen

Do we have a way to avoid the Java keywords

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Kotlin
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Description

there is an type has three values, public, private and share.
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so, with the code generation, it generates an Enum like

Enum BoardKind {
public,
private,
share
}

while public and private are Java reserved keywords, this will fail compile.

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Research direction

Start with the generated BoardKind example and reproduce the compilation failure caused by public and private. Determine how reserved enum values should be handled, then verify that the generated output compiles while preserving non-keyword values.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, kotlin
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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