Comments on: Fluent Interfaces Require Fluent Situations

By: Fluent Interfaces « Form Follows Function

Fluent Interfaces « Form Follows Function — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:28:21 +0000

[...] research continued to confirm my impressions. Paul Jones and Scott Hanselman both came to the conclusion that the technique works best in very specialized [...]

By: La Maphpia » Blog Archive » Interfaces fluidas

La Maphpia » Blog Archive » Interfaces fluidas — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:54:11 +0000

[...] los blogs de Mike Naberezny y Paul M. Jones pueden encontrar otros [...]

By: Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 14 - Fluent Interface Edition

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:21:00 +0000

[...] I think Paul Jones nails it when he says "Fluent Interfaces Require Fluent [...]

By: jansch.nl » Blog Archive » The danger of Fluent interfaces

jansch.nl » Blog Archive » The danger of Fluent interfaces — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:00:30 +0000

[...] danger of Fluent interfaces After Martin, Mike and Paul have demonstrated the usefulness of Fluent Interfaces, I’d like to take a look at the [...]

By: Yuppii!! » Blog Archive » Fluent Interfaces in PHP

Yuppii!! » Blog Archive » Fluent Interfaces in PHP — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:12:01 +0000

[...] Paul M. Jones, also discusses fluent interfaces on his blog, responding to Mikeâ€™s original post. While Paulâ€™s examples all revolve around his framework, Solar, the advice he gives on the subject makes his post well worth the read. I think, for a fluent interface to be effective, you need situations where you actually have all that information at one time so that you can chain the methods in a fluid way. [...]

By: StR » Blog Archive » Interfaces fluidas

StR » Blog Archive » Interfaces fluidas — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:29:46 +0000

[...] En los blogs de Mike Naberezny y Paul M. Jones pueden encontrar otros ejemplos. [...]

By: Reno

Reno — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 04:34:08 +0000

This can be useful for initializing an objet with multiple criteria. php doesn’t support named parameters so “fluent interface” is an alternative.

class Select {
//function __construct($cols, $from = ‘table’, $where = null, $order = null)
//..
}
$select = new Select;
// FROM and WHERE are skipped.
// Not possible with the constructor version.
$select->cols(‘*’)->order(‘colname DESC’)->fetch();

By: pmjones

pmjones — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:44:33 +0000

Hi Jean-Eric — you’re very kind, thanks.

I don’t think a fluent interface is necessarily related to model-view-controller pattern, though. I would call it more of an API style, rather than a “pattern” for development.

Hope this helps clarify. :-)

By: Jean-Eric

Jean-Eric — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:29:30 +0000

I do appreciate your teaching-oriented-devlopment-skills.

By the way, aren’t fluent interfaces another way to try to reach the never reachable MVC paradigm ? (i.e: Solar architecture)

By: pmjones

pmjones — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:47:22 +0000

Hi Ivo — regarging the “full monty”, there’s no reason not to. I wanted to point out that one can write an interface that accepts both fluent usage and iterative usage, but looking at it now I didn’t make that clear at all. Thanks for asking about it. :-)