Question

I have a class called date:

public class Date{
    private String monthAndDate;
    public Date(String inputMonthAndDate){
        monthAndDate = inputMonthAndDate;
    }
}

I have another class called Patient. Is it possible to get the syntax of monthAndDate from class Date and pass it to a private field in the class Patient?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Note: you should avoid naming classes with names already used by the standard JDK.

To answer your question, you can simply provide a getter in your Date class:

public class Date{
    private String monthAndDate;
    public Date(String inputMonthAndDate){
        monthAndDate = inputMonthAndDate;
    }
    public String getMonthAndDate(){
        return monthAndDate;
    }
}

You can now call:

String s = someDate.getMonthDate();