Articles with the tag "functional options"

In Java, it is pretty common to see libraries that use method chaining (aka the builder pattern) to construct resources. For example, we might construct a user by doing something like: User user = new User.Builder() .name("Michael Scott") .email("michael@dundermifflin.com") .role("manager") .nickname("Best Boss") .build(); Builders are handy for a variety of reasons, but in the example above we are using a builder in order to define a subset of our User attributes before constructing the user object.