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Fluent setters

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

By default, jOOQ generated artefacts follow JavaBeans conventions, where setters return void. If that is not a hard requirement, fluent setters can be generated where the setter returns the record/interface/pojo itself. To activate this behaviour, use:

XML (standalone and maven)
Programmatic
Gradle (Kotlin)
Gradle (Groovy)
Gradle (third party)
<configuration>
  <generator>
    <generate>
      <fluentSetters>true</fluentSetters>
    </generate>
  </generator>
</configuration>

See the configuration XSD, standalone code generation, and maven code generation for more details.

new org.jooq.meta.jaxb.Configuration()
  .withGenerator(
    new Generate()
      .withFluentSetters(true)
  )

See the configuration XSD and programmatic code generation for more details.

// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
generationTool {
  generator {
    generate {
      fluentSetters = true
    }
  }
}

See the configuration XSD and gradle code generation for more details.

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