Fluent Builder.md

Overview:

A fluent builder is a builder that contains a method which returns the builder instance intself. This allows you to perform method chaining. You can tell if a builder allows for this by checking the return type of the instance methods. In OOP this is a common design, and it is called a Fluent Interface.

Types participating in this pattern include:

• FluentBuilder

  • Provides an fluent interface for continually accessing builder methods to build out the product
  • Designs and keeps track of the representation it creates (Contains a single Instance of the product)

• Product

  • Represents the complex object under construction
  • FluentBuilder builds the product's internal representation

Sources:

Design Patterns in C# and .NET - Builder: Fluent Builder