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Re^5: OOP's setter/getter method - is there a way to avoid them?

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Nov 05, 2015 at 15:27 UTC ( [id://1146997]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: OOP's setter/getter method - is there a way to avoid them?
in thread OOP's setter/getter method - is there a way to avoid them?

Indeed. There are always going to be some attributes that need to be queried. Further, there are some attributes that need to be set directly and in isolation. Eg. If you move the address need to be updated. If you change your pin. Etc.

Of course, the former is likely a part of a Customer Class; and validation of the address is likely performed by a different processing application long before that information is wrapped up in a transaction and applied to the actual Customer record.

And the latter is likely part of a CreditCard class; and again validation and verification checks performed outside of the process that updated the master records.

But the point holds; accessor and mutator methods should be added deliberately as a designed requirement for those attributes that require them for the functional operation of the class; not generated automatically regardless of the need.


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