Fluent Interfaces

If he is aware of just how number of times I end up on martinfowler.com, I am sure the premier Calgarian geek might think I am virtually stalking him.

Today’s foray was to find out more about fluent interfaces and method chaining. I have been using Phil Haack’s HttpSimulator quite heavily in the last few days and want APIs that I write to be as easy to use and part of such readable code.

For example:

using (HttpSimulator simulator = new HttpSimulator())
{
  simulator
   .SetFormVariable("Test1", "Value1")
   .SetFormVariable("Test2", "Value2")
   .SimulateRequest(new Uri("http://localhost/Test.aspx"));
}