Getters and Setters are bad OO design? [duplicate]

Answer 1

There are other articles that say they are good design. But the answer is this: getXXX and setXXX are good or bad based on usage. these mathods do make a lot of things easier. So if some article says it's a bad design I think; it's just trying to be too hard on the idea.

One of the biggest usage of these methods are in a lot of framework and used as a reflection mechanism.

So don't completely avoid using these, rather... use it judiciously.

thanks Ayusman