Encapsulation and Getters

Question

I was reading this article on why getter and setters are evil. The article doesn\'t say not to use them ever, but, it\'s telling y

Answer 1

Think of it this way: Getters (public functions) are a bridge for private attributes.

I'll write you a simple example to modify your TextField using OOP.

Book class:

public final class Book {
private String title;
//Authors is class with the attributes authorFirstname, authorLastname
private List listofAuthors;


public Book(String title, List listofAuthors)
{
    //initialization
}
public String getTitle() {
return this.title; }
}

GUI:

author1 = new Author("jhon");
author 2 = new Author("alsojhon");
list = new ArrayList();
list.add(author1);
list.add(author2)
b = new Book("stack",list);
JTextField field;
field.setText(b.getTitle());