To understand get and set, it's all related to how variables are passed between different classes.
The get method is used to obtain or retrieve a particular variable value from a class.
A set value is used to store the variables.
The whole point of the get and set is to retrieve and store the data values accordingly.
What I did in this old project was I had a User class with my get and set methods that I used in my Server class.
The User class's get set methods:
public int getuserID()
{
//getting the userID variable instance
return userID;
}
public String getfirstName()
{
//getting the firstName variable instance
return firstName;
}
public String getlastName()
{
//getting the lastName variable instance
return lastName;
}
public int getage()
{
//getting the age variable instance
return age;
}
public void setuserID(int userID)
{
//setting the userID variable value
this.userID = userID;
}
public void setfirstName(String firstName)
{
//setting the firstName variable text
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public void setlastName(String lastName)
{
//setting the lastName variable text
this.lastName = lastName;
}
public void setage(int age)
{
//setting the age variable value
this.age = age;
}
}
Then this was implemented in the run() method in my Server class as follows:
//creates user object
User use = new User(userID, firstName, lastName, age);
//Mutator methods to set user objects
use.setuserID(userID);
use.setlastName(lastName);
use.setfirstName(firstName);
use.setage(age);