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Data/Information Hiding,

Encapsulation

Lecture 7

Asif Shahzad, Assistant Professor


COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Private Behavior and Attributes of object
• Our home is an object, its kitchen and bedroom are private. We do
not allow guests or strangers to visit our kitchen and bedrooms.
• In same way, mobile number is our attribute, but we do not share it
with everyone. It’s our private attribute.
• We do not allow others access or call our certain behavior e.g.
shopping and eating.
• In same way, an automatic car do not allow the driver to change its
gear, it changes it automatically.
Use Access Modifiers: public or private
• We can make certain behavior private, by declaring it with
‘private’ access modifier. Example, hide calculateAverage()
• In same way, to make an attribute hidden from outside
world, declare it as private e.g. mobileNumber.

• Other classes, where object of our class is created, would not


be able to read/call private attributes/methods. Private
attributes and methods are accessible within the class.
Encapsulation
1. Lets say, we want Student id be a positive integer. How to do
it? Demo..
2. So, to encapsulate a field, we can make it private and create
public get and set methods to give read/write access of
attribute to others.
3. In object oriented design, its Student class responsibility to
make sure, it will always store a valid id.
4. So encapsulation help to prevent data corruption by other
objects / entities.
Why we declare an attribute as private?
• Why we declare an attribute as private?
• To ensure data validity
• To enforce some organization constraints at write and read opration
• To have some private state which other objects has no concern
Conventions About get/set methods
• Method name is prefixed with ‘get’ or ‘set’ followed by attribute
name (use camel notation for methods).
• The get method's return type must be the type of attribute it returns
and it must not receive any argument.
• The set method's return type is always void and it must receive only
one argument whose type must be same as the type of the attribute
being set.
• Access modifier for the get and set methods is generally public, but its
not a requirement or convention. It can be changed as per application
requirements.
Next !
How we can initialize state at the time of
object construction?

Constructors

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