Questions tagged [getters]
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Difference between `Class.X` and `Class.getX()`?
Might be a silly question or something I might have just messed up in my head but here we go...
I saw a code example of someone using getPos() in their own class to retrieve the current position of an ...
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How do I avoid tightly coupling one microservice to another microservice's feature that depends on specific views of the first's data?
I've seen this problem in a few different contexts now but I'm not sure what it's called or how to think about it.
Suppose I have a service, AccountService, that serves accounts from a database, e.g.
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Why use private access modifier if we need to access private variables anyway?
Everywhere is said that a private member can only be accessed from inside the same class, but at the same time, we can access the private member using getters and setters, therefore my question is:
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Is using getter method violating the law of Demeter?
Suppose I have a Attendance class
public class Attendance {
private PersonInfo personInfo;
public PersonInfo getPersonInfo() {
return personInfo;
}
}
And I want to check if person is ...
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What is the utility and advantage of getters & setters especially when they are merely used to read and assign values to properties of an object? [closed]
I’m still really new to learning to program. Just learning the syntax for a few programming languages at the moment.
The courses I viewed for C# and Java touched only very briefly on getters & ...
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Backing field versus private set C#
I doubted to post this question to the general StackOverflow, but it is suggested to not post opinion-based questions and this might be one. And ofcourse, this is the software engineering department. ...
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The usage of getter notation inside the context of the class
Consider the following JavaScript code:
class MyClass {
#myPrivateField;
constructor() {
#myPrivateField = new AnotherClass();
this.theGetter.method1(); // or: this.#myPrivateField....
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Can renaming a method preserve encapsulation?
I was reading this page, about when getters/setters are justified, and the OP gave the following code sample:
class Fridge
{
int cheese;
void set_cheese(int _cheese) { cheese = _cheese; }
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Should a class provide public mutators for all its private fields?
I work on refactoring an Java application based on a CAST audit. One of the criterion says that
To respect OO encapsulation concepts, private fields should always be
accessed through accessors
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Should I use accessors or public static fields for global constants?
I have to work on some code that was CAST-audited. The report says that it is bad in Java to use public static and that accessors should be preferred. That is also what I was taught at school.
The ...
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use always get and set methods is a bad practique, is call directly an attribute class a bad practique in OOP?
I have a doubt about if there are some recommendations for call directly an attribute in a class
I think that in OOP you always should call an attribute by the get method.
For example:
On set
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Is using getters to exchange information between objects acceptable?
Suppose I have the following Character, Potion, and PotionType classes:
class Player:
def __init__(self, name: str, health: int, mana: int):
self._name = name
self._attributes: ...
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Are groovy automatic getters and setter effectively any different to public variables?
To provide a very blunt example (as I am at work and can't currently think of a sensible example).
If I write a groovy class like this
class Wendy{
byte[] frank
String doSomethingWithFrank(){...
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Set result of getter instead of setter [closed]
Is this a legit use of getter
Lady lady = new Lady();
lady.getWater() = "hot water";
if we suppose getter returns
Class Lady {
public String getWater() {
this.water;
}}
?
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OOP in Java - What can getters be used for?
Usually, getters always return the value of a variable. I learned in my literature that access to fields is controlled by getters and setters. When I had my code rated by programmers, it was suddenly ...
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Is there any reason to avoid private getters?
Even though I could write something like this (In C#. There are, of course, equivalents in other languages):
public int SomeNumber { private get; set; }
I have never encountered something like this. ...
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Is it a bad idea to use getters/setters and/or properties at all? [duplicate]
I am perplexed by comments under this answer: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/358851/212639
A user is arguing there against the use of getters/setters and properties. He maintains ...
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Dealing with a lot of getters and setters
I've already asked "Dealing with a large interface".
I have a further question regarding that situation. It was pointed out to me that I used a lot of getters and setters and so I broke encapsulation....
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Encapsulation and Displaying Information
This site and SO contain many pages about getters/setters and if they break encapsulation or enforce it. My question is for those developers that agree that getters/setters break encapsulation and ...
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How exactly are getters and setters defined?
Note: Questions with similar title have been asked before, but please read the full text before claiming that this is a duplicate.
Since everybody in OOP uses the terms getter and setter, I would ...
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Conflict in getter and setter method names in ruby api design
I am inheriting an api decision in an SDK I am writing where I am required to fetch domain objects (entries) from the server like this:
blogEntries = client.content_type('blog').entries
As you can ...
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Should the getters and setters of a stl container access the container itself or the elements inside it?
Consider I have a vector and map as class members:
class MyClass{
protected:
std::vector<int> myVector;
std::map<int,std::string> myMap;
};
Should the getter and setter access ...
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