OpenRTB: Allow model inheritance from external packages

[pavel-ptashyts]

🔧 Type of changes

• new feature
• documentation

✨ What's the context?

When using Prebid Server Java as a JAR dependency, an application may reuse bidder adapters while keeping its own request and response representation. The adapter APIs accept concrete OpenRTB classes, so an unrelated wrapper cannot be passed to them. Most of these models are final and have package-private or private constructors, which prevents application-defined subclasses outside the model package.

This change allows those applications to extend the request and response models, including their nested OpenRTB and Native Ads objects, without maintaining a fork just to change class and constructor visibility. For example, an integration can attach local context to a response or define application-specific behavior in a subtype accepted by the existing APIs.

🧠 Rationale behind the change

Use @NonFinal on value classes and protected all-arguments constructors where constructors were inaccessible to external subclasses. Existing fields, builders and wire properties are retained. The SupplyChain, SupplyChainNode and Link factories remain available as explicit of(...) methods; BrandVersion keeps its existing public constructor. Native is already extensible and does not need a change.

This is a limited first step toward supporting external integrations. It does not implement lazy conversion, change tracking or builder inheritance, and does not claim an allocation reduction on its own. The developer note describes the boundaries around toBuilder(), equality and serialization. Inherited value fields remain private and final; applications are responsible for the behavior and state ownership of their subclasses. Subclass constructors may need updating as model fields evolve.

An alternative would be to migrate the other models to @SuperBuilder, following the existing Native implementation. That could provide a more complete foundation for inheritance with builders, but it is a broader change that needs additional implementation time and compatibility testing of the generated builder API. If maintainers prefer that direction, I am happy to follow up with a @SuperBuilder migration.

🧪 Test plan

• mvn -B -Dtest=OpenRtbModelInheritanceTest test passes on JDK 25, including Checkstyle and compilation of production and test sources. The seven tests cover external-package request/response subclasses, equality, JSON round trips, toBuilder(), mutable native response models, retained factories and the public BrandVersion constructor.
• Compiled an external-package subclass of every one of the 53 direct request/response models against the built classes. Compared their public method and constructor signatures with the baseline: all existing signatures are retained.
• Full mvn -B test run: 8,785 tests, three failures in UidsCookieServiceTest (the same three tests also fail on the unchanged baseline), two skipped, and one environment-related SanityTest error because /var/tmp/vendor2 was not writable. SanityTest passes when rerun with vendor cache paths under target via system properties.

🏎 Quality check

• Changes follow the code style guidelines.
• Breaking changes to existing public construction APIs.
• Test coverage exceeds 90%.
• Erroneous console logs, debuggers or leftover code.

The project's JaCoCo configuration excludes com/iab/openrtb/**, so no coverage percentage is claimed for these models. The retained explicit factory methods are exercised by the regression tests.