[jira] Updated: (THRIFT-540) Have set methods return reference to self

["Bryan Duxbury (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Bryan Duxbury updated THRIFT-540:
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    Attachment: thrift-540.patch

I think this should do the trick. What do you think?

> Have set methods return reference to self
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-540
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-540
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Compiler (Java)
>            Reporter: Nathan Marz
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.2
>
>         Attachments: thrift-540.patch
>
>
> 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(...)

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