Setter getter ..? what is this and what it does ?
i searched over google but didn't find the suitable answer...!
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The name pretty much implies what it is, getter methods get variables, and setter methods set variables.
Say for instance you a have a class called Contact, the "getName()" method in the Contact class would return the Name variable.
Like so:
public class …
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Jump to Posti searched over google but didn't find the suitable answer...!
The technical OO terminology is "accessors and mutators" - googling these will give you lots of good info.
Here's a good article to start with:
Jump to PostYes, you have to create an object first, before calling getters and setters.
class setter1{ public static void main(String args[]){ Contact contact1 = new Contact("Xufyan"); // do some other stuff contact1.setName("John"); // example of calling setter // do some other stuff String name = contact1.getName(); // example …
Jump to Postpublic Student getValues(){
The line above is the declaration of a public function called getValues which takes no arguments and returns an object of type Student.
Student s = new Student(); // object in the same class ? :confused:
The line above creates a …
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thanks - i didn't knew about accessors and mutators ! :D
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