Getters for Builder

I have constructed a Charge builder like below,

ChargeCreateParams.Builder chargeCreateParamsBuilder = new ChargeCreateParams.Builder();

		chargeCreateParamsBuilder.setAmount(Long.valueOf("100"));
		chargeCreateParamsBuilder.setDescription("desc");
		chargeCreateParamsBuilder.setCurrency("USD");
		chargeCreateParamsBuilder.putMetadata("CompanyName", "Stripe");
		chargeCreateParamsBuilder.putMetadata("Designation", "Remote Dev");

Before building the builder using chargeCreateParamsBuilder.build(), at some point of time, say for ex, I need to verify whether I had set a meta data in the builder.(another ex, Maybe I might be validating the value set in the builder after some time)

I now need to retrieve all the values set as Meta data in the builder. As of now, I am not able to retrieve the vaules set in the Builder object.

There is no support to retrieve the nodes set in the builder.

[ob-stripe]

I’ve given this a bit more thought and I think getters directly on builder classes are rather uncommon and a bit of a violation of the single responsibility principle.

In version 13.2.0, we’ve added getters on the resulting parameters classes (i.e. the classes that are returned by the parameters builders). Would that work for your use case, @Thilakeswar? You’d be able to do something like this:

ChargeCreateParams.Builder chargeCreateParamsBuilder = new ChargeCreateParams.Builder();
chargeCreateParamsBuilder.setAmount(Long.valueOf("100"));
// etc.

Long amount = chargeCreateParamsBuilder.build().getAmount();
// do whatever validation is needed

// finally build the "real" parameters class instance that you'll use for your API request
ChargeCreateParams chargeCreateParams = chargeCreateParamsBuilder.build();

[ob-stripe]

I think this is a reasonable request. No promises as to when we’ll get to it, but let’s keep this open for now.