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diff --git a/website/resources/css/custom.css b/website/resources/css/custom.css index ded02a06..240d6c4c 100644 --- a/website/resources/css/custom.css +++ b/website/resources/css/custom.css @@ -268,6 +268,10 @@ ol.snippet.cmd li:before { content: ">\A0\A0"; } +ol.snippet li.continued { + padding-left: 2em; +} + .fork-me { position: fixed; width: 150px; diff --git a/website/templates/features/Builder.html b/website/templates/features/Builder.html index 1b6c6e62..1461161f 100644 --- a/website/templates/features/Builder.html +++ b/website/templates/features/Builder.html @@ -21,9 +21,17 @@ <p> The <code>@Builder</code> annotation produces complex builder APIs for your classes. </p><p> - <code>@Builder</code> lets you automatically produce the code required to have your class be instantiable with code such as:<br /> - <code>Person.builder().name("Adam Savage").city("San Francisco").job("Mythbusters").job("Unchained Reaction").build();</code> - </p><p> + <code>@Builder</code> lets you automatically produce the code required to have your class be instantiable with code such as: + </p> + <ol class="snippet example"> + <li>Person.builder()</li> + <li class="continued">.name("Adam Savage")</li> + <li class="continued">.city("San Francisco")</li> + <li class="continued">.job("Mythbusters")</li> + <li class="continued">.job("Unchained Reaction")</li> + <li class="continued">.build();</li> + </ol> + <p> <code>@Builder</code> can be placed on a class, or on a constructor, or on a method. While the "on a class" and "on a constructor" mode are the most common use-case, <code>@Builder</code> is most easily explained with the "method" use-case. </p><p> A method annotated with <code>@Builder</code> (from now on called the <em>target</em>) causes the following 7 things to be generated: @@ -46,7 +54,15 @@ </ul> Each listed generated element will be silently skipped if that element already exists (disregarding parameter counts and looking only at names). This includes the <em>builder</em> itself: If that class already exists, lombok will simply start injecting fields and methods inside this already existing class, unless of course the fields / methods to be injected already exist. You may not put any other method (or constructor) generating lombok annotation on a builder class though; for example, you can not put <code>@EqualsAndHashCode</code> on the builder class. </p><p> - <code>@Builder</code> can generate so-called 'singular' methods for collection parameters/fields. These take 1 element instead of an entire list, and add the element to the list. For example: <code>Person.builder().job("Mythbusters").job("Unchained Reaction").build();</code> would result in the <code>List<String> jobs</code> field to have 2 strings in it. To get this behavior, the field/parameter needs to be annotated with <code>@Singular</code>. The feature has <a href="#singular">its own documentation</a>. + <code>@Builder</code> can generate so-called 'singular' methods for collection parameters/fields. These take 1 element instead of an entire list, and add the element to the list. For example: + </p> + <ol class="snippet example"> + <li>Person.builder()</li> + <li class="continued">.job("Mythbusters")</li> + <li class="continued">.job("Unchained Reaction")</li> + <li class="continued">.build();</li> + </ol> + <p>would result in the <code>List<String> jobs</code> field to have 2 strings in it. To get this behavior, the field/parameter needs to be annotated with <code>@Singular</code>. The feature has <a href="#singular">its own documentation</a>. </p><p> Now that the "method" mode is clear, putting a <code>@Builder</code> annotation on a constructor functions similarly; effectively, constructors are just static methods that have a special syntax to invoke them: Their 'return type' is the class they construct, and their type parameters are the same as the type parameters of the class itself. </p><p> |