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Shafeeq Ahmed
6,058 PointsChaining Methods
I want to know more about chaining methods to one object in java. like this sentance.toLowerCase().contains("hello")
I use this peace of code in one of my small applications and it worked fine. Is there anything I should consider when I chain methods together like this. I am trying not to miss anything. Please let me know if I am missing anything.
1 Answer
Shafeeq Ahmed
6,058 PointsThanks Anthoney
Anthony Mikhail
9,942 PointsAnthony Mikhail
9,942 PointsThis isn't necessarily an answer, but just try to keep in mind the return type of each method. in each method you used in the example above, you started with a String and returned a String each time up until your contains method which returns a boolean value. so if you were to try to chain another method that belongs to the string class after your contains method, it wouldn't compile. theoretically you can continue chaining methods as long as the return type of the previous matches the method you are trying to implement.