Wow, there's Scala again. Amazing how it somehow always sneaks in. As
to the topic at hand, I'd suggest submitting a request for
enhancement. The right people (Tulach etc.) can probably have this
done in a jiff with a check-box in the existing accessor wizard.

On Oct 12, 9:46 pm, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scala's case classes plus named arguments really solve this well,
> particularly if the calling code can be Scala too.
>
> case class Node(x: Float, y: Float)
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:42 PM, B Smith-Mannschott
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> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > OK, so we've established that neither Eclipse nor Lombok will do what
> > the OP needs.  Are there any other alternatives?
>
> > I found myself needing something very similar only last week. In my
> > case, it was for a simple immutable value type (using Lombok's
> > lovely @Data) to which I wanted to add fluent builder style methods,
> > e.g.:
>
> > @Data
> > class Node {
> >  private final float x;
> >  private final float y;
> >  // Lombok generates getX(), getY(), but not setX(), setY()
> >  //   because x, y are final.
> >  // Lombok generates Node(float x, float y) constructor
> >  //   since x and y are final.
> >  Node withX(float x) {
> >    return new Node(x, y);
> >  }
> >  Node withY(float y) {
> >    return new Node(x, y);
> >  }
> > }
>
> > I ended up firing up emacs and defining a ad-hoc keyboard macro
> > to grind out the code for me. Yea! More boilerplate for the next
> > developer to wade through! huzzah!
>
> > How difficult would it be for someone inexperienced with Lombok's
> > internals to add something like this?
>
> > Stuff like this is why I'm glad there's more than just Java on the
> > JVM. For example, a Lisp (like Clojure) makes this kind of code
> > generation drudgery easy via its civilized [1] macro support.
>
> > [1] where uncivilized == the C preprocessor.
>
> > // Ben
>
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 18:27, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> project lombok can do this without cluttering up your code:
> >>http://projectlombok.org/(disclaimer: I'm a lombok developer). It
> >> works in both eclipse and netbeans (and the command line).
>
> >> Eclipse has built in support to generate these (in the source menu,
> >> "generate getters/setters"). I'm fairly sure netbeans has something
> >> similar, no plugins required. They do actually stick text in your
> >> source files that you then have to maintain, though, unlike Lombok.
>
> >> As far as I know none of these generate the 'return this' style
> >> setter, because that style of setter does not adhere to the bean
> >> standard.
>
> >> On Oct 12, 5:22 pm, Peter A Pilgrim <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Hi Everyone
>
> >>> May be even Tor can help.
>
> >>> Has anyone come across a name value pattern plugin for NetBeans or
> >>> Eclipse IDE?
> >>> Given a class like this:
>
> >>> class Node {
> >>>      private float x;
> >>>      private float y;
> >>>      private float z;
>
> >>> }
>
> >>> The plugin generates the accessors and builder chain mutators
>
> >>> class Node {
> >>>      private float x;
> >>>      private float y;
> >>>      private float z;
>
> >>>      public float getX() { return x; }
> >>>      public Node setX( float x ) { this.x = x; return this }
> >>>      public float getY() { return x; }
> >>>      public Node setY( float y ) { this.y = y; return this }
> >>>      public float getZ() { return z; }
> >>>      public Node setZ( float z ) { this.z = z; return this }
>
> >>> }
>
> >>> TIA
>
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