Fluent API on components

[Juke1999]

It would be great to have the possibility to use Java's fluent API on all components. If you create a button, you won't have to do:

MFXButton loginButton = new MFXButton();

loginButton.setText("Login");
loginButton.setGraphic(new FontIcon("fas-sign-in-alt"));
loginButton.setButtonType(ButtonType.RAISED);
loginButton.setTranslateY(50);
loginButton.setGraphicTextGap(10);
loginButton.getStyleClass().add("some-class");

but instead:

MFXButton loginButton = new MFXButton()
    .setText("Login")
    .setGraphic(new FontIcon("fas-sign-in-alt"))
    .setButtonType(ButtonType.RAISED)
    .setTranslateY(50)
    .setGraphicTextGap(10)
    .getStyleClass().add("some-class");

This would make the code cleaner and the creation of new elements a lot easier.

[palexdev]

Fluent API is more suitable for builders
Using it everywhere would be an anti-pattern
What do you think of a ComponentBuilder which gives instances of other builders for each component, for example:

ComponentBuilder.getButtonBuilder()
        .setText(...)
        .setGraphic(...)
        and so on...

ComponentBuilder.getCheckboxBuilder()
        .setText(...)
       .setSelected(...)
       and so on...

This way would be more clean, but still, a lot of code to write for each component

[Juke1999]

That should work, indeed.
It was just a suggestion, it more or less works like your code too, that's true.

[palexdev]

I'm going to mark this as enhancement then
Hope to get it done for the next version

[palexdev]

Available on staging branch
Hope I didn't forgot anything and that the API is convenient enough

[palexdev]

API available in the latest release