On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 23:10, Bryan Duxbury (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-663?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > ] > > Bryan Duxbury updated THRIFT-663: > --------------------------------- > > Attachment: thrift-663.patch > > OK, how about this? > > The "beans" option will make sure the setter methods return void. > > The "private-members" option leaves the setter methods alone, but makes sure > the actual members are private. This is for those of us who want the builder > style setters but private instance variables.
Why not come out all the way and have a 'builder' option which would create a Builder class which would do something similar as what J. Bloch describes in Effective Java (@see http://rwhansen.blogspot.com/2007/07/theres-builder-pattern-that-joshua.html)?
