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While I mostly agree, getters without setters is a nice way to expose that youre data is immutable rather than relying on final fields

• opmac 9y ago
  Just use public final. That is the defacto way to make immutable data classes. Why would a data class need non final fields?
  • arthur_pryor 9y ago
    i'm a little rusty on my java, but i don't think this will work for non-constants (i.e. it won't work for things you don't set at compile time). to my knowledge, there's no "make this a constant after the first time the value is set" declaration in java (or any language that i'm aware of).
    • dhosek 9y ago
      If you declare a field final in Java, you either need to set it at declaration or in the constructor, so it will work with things set at compile time.