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Encapsulation

Encapsulation is the process of bundling data and methods that manipulate that data within a single unit, typically a class, while restricting access to the inner workings through data hiding. This is achieved by making class members private and providing public setter and getter methods for data access. The advantages of encapsulation include data hiding, increased flexibility in variable access, improved reusability, and easier unit testing.

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Encapsulation

Encapsulation is the process of bundling data and methods that manipulate that data within a single unit, typically a class, while restricting access to the inner workings through data hiding. This is achieved by making class members private and providing public setter and getter methods for data access. The advantages of encapsulation include data hiding, increased flexibility in variable access, improved reusability, and easier unit testing.

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Encapsulation is defined as the wrapping up of data under a single unit.

It is the
mechanism that binds together code and the data it manipulates. Another way to
think about encapsulation is, that it is a protective shield that prevents the data from
being accessed by the code outside this shield.

Technically in encapsulation, the variables or data of a class is hidden from


any other class and can be accessed only through any member function of
its own class in which it is declared.
 As in encapsulation, the data in a class is hidden from other classes using
the data hiding concept which is achieved by making the members or
methods of a class private, and the class is exposed to the end-user or the
world without providing any details behind implementation using the
abstraction concept, so it is also known as a combination of data-hiding
and abstraction.
 Encapsulation can be achieved by Declaring all the variables in the class as
private and writing public methods in the class to set and get the values of
variables.
 It is more defined with the setter and getter method.
Advantages of Encapsulation:
 Data Hiding: it is a way of restricting the access of our data members by
hiding the implementation details. Encapsulation also provides a way for
data hiding. The user will have no idea about the inner implementation of
the class. It will not be visible to the user how the class is storing values in
the variables. The user will only know that we are passing the values to a
setter method and variables are getting initialized with that value.
 Increased Flexibility: We can make the variables of the class read-only or
write-only depending on our requirement. If we wish to make the variables
read-only then we have to omit the setter methods like setName(),
setAge(), etc. from the above program or if we wish to make the variables
write-only then we have to omit the get methods like getName(), getAge(),
etc. from the above program
 Reusability: Encapsulation also improves the re-usability and is easy to
change with new requirements.
 Testing code is easy: Encapsulated code is easy to test for unit testing.

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