Can I assign types to class properties in MATLAB?

Question

I\'m new to using MATLAB as an object-oriented environment and I\'m writing my first class to describe a network packet. A simple example would be the following

Answer 1

Since it is not possible to explicitly specify types for variables in Matlab, you cannot do this when declaring properties.

However, you can define a set method which checks the class and either throws an error or converts the input to whatever you want.

For example

classdef myClass
   properties
      myProperty = uint16(23); %# specify default value using correct type
   end
   methods
      function obj = set.myProperty(obj,val)
         if ~isa(val,'uint16')
            error('only uint16 values allowed')
         end
         %# assign the value
         obj.myProperty = val;
      end
   end
end