Does Java bean's setter permit return this?

Question

can I define setter method to return this rather than void?

Like:

ClassA setItem1() {
      return this;
}

ClassA setItem2() {
      return this;
}
         


        

Answer 1

Absolutely nothing to stop you doing that but why. If you want to do this create a constructor that takes the args. Bare in mind some software that uses beans would not be expecting return values and may have some unexpected results

If you just want to simplify initialisation, (maybe to set up tests) you could use some groovy code.