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Bug 225682 - Let generated setters optionally return this
Summary: Let generated setters optionally return this
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: java
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Editor (show other bugs)
Version: 7.4
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Dusan Balek
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Reported: 2013-02-04 05:36 UTC by pekarna
Modified: 2015-10-05 13:26 UTC (History)
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Description pekarna 2013-02-04 05:36:38 UTC 
Currently, NetBeans generates normal setter, i.e. returns void.
It's quite popular nowadays to have setters returning this to chain them like
   
     new Foo().setBar("bar").setBaz("baz");

It's possible to change the template, but sometimes (in other projects), void setters are needed.

So, it would be nice if the "Generate [getters and] setters dialog had a checkbox, which would pass a boolean value to the template which could then create one or the other setter style.

Thanks for considering.