Return of 'this'
Reports methods returning this
.
While such a return is valid, it is rarely necessary, and usually indicates that the method is intended to be used as part of a chain of similar method calls (for example, buffer.append("foo").append("bar").append("baz")
). Such chains are frowned upon by many coding standards.
Example:
public Builder append(String str) {
// [...]
return this;
}
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Available in: | IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3 |
Plugin: | Java, 233.SNAPSHOT |
Last modified: 13 July 2023