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The Builder pattern

The Builder pattern

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The Builder pattern

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- [Instructor] Another common creation pattern is the so-called builder pattern. Now in Spring, you will see that this pattern is used in various places throughout the framework. One of the most common ones that I use is the ResultActions, which is part of the MockMvc structure used for testing web applications and web services within the Spring framework. One thing I want to notice, even though it's not really in Spring, is that Lombok actually has taken this builder pattern to a whole new level by providing you an annotation that does all the work that we're about to do in the next video based on a simple annotation, and it's really a time saver. If you haven't looked at Lombok, I highly encourage you to do so. So let's take a look at the pattern as it exists in a nutshell. So each method returns the object reference it's called from in the builder pattern. The build method, which is usually the end of the chain, returns a fully constructed object based on all the intermediate calls…

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