Top "Encapsulation" questions

In OOP, mechanism for restricting access to some of the object's components or a design principle encouraging decoupling from implementation details.

What is encapsulation? How does it actually hide data?

Searching turns up a simple definition: data hiding. But, consider the following two examples: 1) First Example: Class Employee { public int …

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Why would you declare getters and setters method private?

I saw a code where getters and setters methods are declared private. I am trying to figure out the logic …

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Validate a value in property

So I heard that validating a value in a property like this: //dummy example, let's assume that I want my …

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Can There Be Private Extension Methods?

Let's say I have a need for a simple private helper method, and intuitively in the code it would make …

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Ruby class with static method calling a private method?

I have a class with a number of static methods. Each one has to call a common method, but I'm …

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Can I write validation logic in setter methods?

Are setter methods only used to set the value of attributes as it is passed as argument? Can we write …

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Effective C++ Item 23 Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions

While puzzling with some facts on class design, specifically whether the functions should be members or not, I looked into …

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Getters and Setters are bad OO design?

Getters and Setters are bad Briefly reading over the above article I find that getters and setters are bad OO …

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Java encapsulation

We always say that data will be encapsulated if we simply define variables private and define getters setters to access …

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encapsulation and abstraction OOPs concept

Does Encapsulation is information Hiding or it leads to information hiding?? As we say that Encapsulation binds data and functions …

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