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Wrong usage of mappers factory should be able to remove static initializer

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the static-initializer and interface-field examples from the issue and tracing how the IntelliJ plugin currently handles Mappers.getMapper usage. Check the discussion around PR #179 for context. Done means determining whether these patterns can be supported and, if so, validating the behavior with coverage for both examples.

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Description

Why reviewing PR #179 @hduelme pointed out that the Wrong usage of mappers factory does not work (i.e. it does not remove it) with the following code:

@Mapper(componentModel = "spring")
abstract class WrongComponentModelMapper {

    static {
        Mappers.getMapper(WrongComponentModelMapper.class);
    }
    
    Target map(Target source);
}

or

@Mapper(config = MyConfig.class, componentModel = "spring")
interface WrongComponentModelMapper {


    WrongComponentModelMapper INSTANCE = () -> {
        return Mappers.getMapper(WrongComponentModelMapper.class);
    };

    Target map(Target source);
}

We need to see if we can support this.

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