Hallo,

the generation of fluent setters over the "Generate Getters and Setters" dialog currently creates the following PHPDoc comments for the following class:

Class A 
{
    /**
     * …
     * @return \A
     */
    public function setB($b)
    {
        …
    }
}

Latest PHPDoc version define a keyword "$this": "This exact object instance, usually used to denote a fluent interface." (http://www.phpdoc.org/docs/latest/guides/types.html#keywords). So instead of the above, Netbeans could simply generate:

Class A
{
    /**
     * …
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setB($b)
    {
        …
    }
}

This should also make the code for fetching the class name obsolete.
Also if the comment is manually changed to "@return $this" code completion still works, since NB seems to rely on the "return $this" statement inside the function.

Thanks.

By the way is Bug #239987 related to this?