What does encapsulation mean? - Cracking the Java Coding Interview

Cracking the #Java #Coding #Interview - Question 131: What does encapsulation mean?

[bartek]

And reflection in java spoils it all 😜

[rzyr]

Ok, but if I have just simple getters and setters for all fields in my class, how is that different from public fields? I know that it gives me ability to modify the accessors, but in most cases it's not the best idea and you can just start using the accessor then.

[RAVINDERSINGH-htpl]

The purpose of Encapsulation is protect the state of your object to be corrupted unintentionally by peer programmer as it was very often with procedural language like C which uses global variable... So use public method to access/mutate the state of an object

[angeloalonzo]

Been thinking about lately how would I explain encapsulation in an interview and this comes tnx

[TargunYssboern]

Ok, if encapsulation is only about private accessors then how do we name "Bundling relevant state and behaviour together" to create an object. Mind you - this is the most fundamental idea of OOP.

[brixomatic]

And then people just create getters that return the private list object and spoil it all.

[sush]

Then what is abstraction. This is definition of abstraction.

[hazartilirot]

Eventually they have included subtitles to videos 🙌.