Getter, Setter, Never?

Published on December 04, 2019 and filed under Software engineering
Written by Zvonimir Spajic and will take

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In short

The rigmarole of starting a new project can be tedious. You have to create a bunch of basic classes and fill in all their getters and setters. Luckily your IDE can automate this for you. But should you even generate these methods? Take a look at when getters and setters are an anti pattern. Learn how to improve your classes and readability of your code.

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Written by

Zvonimir Spajic

Zvonimir is a passionate software developer from Croatia who worked for madewithlove from 2019 till 2020.

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