Get {} Set {}?

[john tindell]

In C# you can do this

private int iCoins;
public int Coins
{
	Get
	{
		return this.iCoins;
	}
	Set
	{
		this.iCoins = value;
	}
}

is there a way to do something like this in java

[x-ice]

I dont have a java compiler on the computer i am using, so i dont know if this syntax is allowed. Try this.

private int iCoins;

public int getCoins(int value)
 {
     //Set 'iCoins'
     this.iCoins = value;
     //Return the value of 'iCoins'
     return iCoins;
 }

I dont think you need to use this when returning iCoins.

[Santa Clause]

In java you have to write the accessors yourself:

class Person 
{
    private String firstName;
    private String surName;

    void setFirstName(String s)
    {
        firstName = s;
    }

    String getFirstName()
    {
         return firstName;
    }

    String getSurName()
    {
        return SurName;
    }
}

SurName would be read-only as you have no set method for it. To get and set the properties:

p = new Person();

p.setFirstName('Santa');

[john tindell]

damn i was hoping that i would be able to do

class yyy
{
	private String sMyString;
	public String MyString
	{
		get
		{
			return this.sMyString;
		}
		set
		{
			this.sMyString = value;
			System.out.writeln("MyString has been changed to: " + value);
		}
	}
}
class xxx
{
	public xxx()
	{
		yyy y = new yyy();
		y.MyString = "Hello World!";
	}
}

or something alone those line.

[CornedBee]

Nope. Properties don't exist in Java proper. (No loss IMHO.) Bean scripting environments, however, will use the get/set pattern to create properties.