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CS 102

Object Oriented Programming

this
this
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¨ An important keyword used inside methods in order


to refer to the current object.
¨ this is “the calling object”
¤ this is the object which called the method
¤ The object that occurs before the dot

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this
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¨ There are several use cases of this

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Bank Account
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Bank Account
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this
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¨ There are several use cases of this


1. It is used to access the instance variables without any
confusion with parameter names.

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this
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¨ There are several use cases of this


1. It is used to access the instance variables without any
confusion with parameter names.

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this (first use case)
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¨ One letter parameters are not very descriptive.


¤ It is usually the convention in Java to use the instance
variable name as parameters in the corresponding set
methods.
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this (first use case)
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¨ It should be smt like:

¤ parameter names are same with class instance names


¤ no compile error
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this (first use case)
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¨ What should
be the output?

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this (first use case)
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¨ What should
be the output?

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this (first use case)
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¨ It gives warning as : The assignment to variable


interesRate has no effect.
¨ When class instance and parameter have the same
names, the assignment operation has no effect

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this (first use case)
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¨ The parameters interestRate and currency shadow


the class instances.

¨ The interestRate assigns the parameter interestRate


to itself, causing no change what so ever.

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this (first use case)
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¨ The parameters interestRate and currency shadow


the class instances.

¨ In such cases you can use the this keyword to reach


the class instances.

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this (first use case)
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this (first use case)
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¨ What should
be the output?

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this (first use case)
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¨ What should
be the output?

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this (first use case)
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¨ It can be also used


inside constructors
to seperate class
instances from
parameters.

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First Constructor
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Second Constructor
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Third Constructor
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this (first use case)
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¨ To be consistent, the same can be done in get


methods.

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A conceptual model for this account1
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¨ A conceptual model for


understanding this
number
¨ Each object in Java has an 1
implicit instance variable,
balance
named this, that points to
100
the object itself.
currency
“TL”
this

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A conceptual model for this account1
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¨ This is not what really


happens during execution.
number
¨ In Java, each object does
NOT keep a reference to 1
itself – that would be a balance
waste of memory space. 100
¨ However, take this as simply currency
a conceptual model “TL”
that helps us understand this
what this means.

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this
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¨ There are several use cases of this


1. It is used to access the instance variables without any
confusion with parameter names.
2. It can be used to invoke constructors of the same class.

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this (second use case)
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¨ When you have multiple constructors, this keyword


can be used to call other constructors.

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Three Constructors
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this (second use case)
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this (second use case)
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Using this for constructor call
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¨ The constructor call should be the first statement in


your constructor.
¨ Otherwise you will receive the following error!

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¨ You cannot use the constructor of the class inside a


constructor to call another constructor.
¨ The only way of calling another constructor within a
constructor is through using this keyword.
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Ozet
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¨ this:
¤ Class instancelarini
(member degiskenlerini),
fonksiyon parametreleri
ile karistirmamak icin.

¤ Constructor in icerisinde
diger bir constructori
cagirabilmek icin.
n Bu durumda cagiran
constructorin ilk cumlesi
“this….“ olmak zorunda
yoksa hata verir.

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33 Any Questions ?

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