[CLK-565] Provide Control builder / factory class

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: examples
• Assignee: Adrian A.
• Reporter: Malcolm Edgar
• Created: 02/Jul/09 23:11
• Updated: 02/Nov/13 13:17
• Resolved: 02/Nov/13 13:17

Description

Using a factory or builder pattern to create controls is a great way to reduce the number of lines of code in an application and can also help standardize your application.

There are 2 common pattners for doing this, one is the factory pattern, for example:

Table sizesTable = new Table("sizes");
ControlFactory.addColumn(table, "label", "Metric");
ControlFactory.addColumn(table, "value");

The other is the builder pattern, for example:

Table sizesTable = TableBuilder.simpleBuilder("sizes").addColumn("label", "Metric").addColumn("value").build();

Both of these styles have pros and cons. Please see attached examples.