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Feature Request: Make interface @IgnoreSave use @Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.FIELD}) #507
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Presumably this would also require some sort of
@DontIgnoreSaveannotation as well to reverse the behavior? Right now there is no annotation for "do save this" since everything is saved by default.Possibly? I personally don't think I would use a @DontIgnoreSave because I don't want nulls all over the place in my Datastore, but maybe others might if they want to query on nulls.
Another reason for @DontIgnoreSave is to save space on entity field names when they are null. If you have field names that are long (as in many characters), when you save a null, it saves many bytes for the field name (and only 1 for the null). At scale, this can add up to a lot of bytes, depending on how many characters your field names are. Better to just not save that field at all and assume it is String.empty or Boolean.false.
Feature request to make interface @IgnoreSave use @target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.FIELD}) so that you can just put it at the top of the class, instead of having to set it on each field.