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I still can't figure it out. Why do people still use auto-generated Getters and Setters instead of just making the field public? What is the advantage of using
by foxyv 7y ago
I still can't figure it out. Why do people still use auto-generated Getters and Setters instead of just making the field public? What is the advantage of using Beans these days? I've never run into a situation where I wanted my getter/setter to do something other than return/set the value.
- lunias 7y agoMostly just convention, but it's also a more flexible pattern. A public instance variable cannot have public reads, but private writes for instance. There is also the case of derived properties. e.g. LocalDateTime ranAt LocalDateTime finishedAt getRuntime() { ... }