[security-dev] PicketLink 3 IDM API - Command Chaining

Working with the IdentityManager interface quite a lot of methods are returning void - has there been any consideration to them returning an appropriate IdentityManager reference to avoid the need for subsequent lookup calls and to potentially commands to be chained? As an example creating a new Tier and obtaining the IdentityManager for that Tier takes three lines and introduces the need to cache the Tier for it's re-use: - Tier internalTier = new Tier("InternalApps", "Tier to contain roles for internal apps.", null); im.createTier(internalTier); IdentityManager internalTierIm = im.forTier(internalTier); Had the call to createTier returned the IdentityManager I could have reduced this down to: - IdentityManager internalTierIm = im.createTier(new Tier( "InternalApps", "Tier to contain roles for internal apps.", null)); Regards, Darran Lofthouse.