[THRIFT-540] Have set methods return reference to self

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2
• Component/s: Java - Compiler
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Bryan Duxbury
• Reporter: Nathan Marz
• Created: 10/Jul/09 00:50
• Updated: 01/Nov/11 02:54
• Resolved: 29/Jul/09 23:47

Description

Sometimes its useful to be able to make a single or string of modifications to a thrift object inline. Having set methods return a reference to itself allows for syntactic sugar like this:

myThriftObject.set_field1(...).set_field2(...)

getObjectFromHelperMethod().set_field2(...)