Question

Suppose I have a class called Person:

public class Person 
{
    private String name, ID, location;
}

Instead of writing individual accessors for name, ID, and location, is there anyway to do something like this:

public String get%s 
{
    return this.%s
}

Where “%s” stands as a sort of place holder for the name of the String which I want to “get”. This way, for the sake of convenience and efficiency, I will be able to write one method to access all three Strings. Thanks.

Answer 1

Java doesn’t have this feature, but if you use Eclipse, you can automatically generate setters and getters for your class members.