How do getters and setters work?

Question

I\'m from the php world. Could you explain what getters and setters are and could give you some examples?

Answer 1

Here is an example to explain the most simple way of using getter and setter in java. One can do this in a more straightforward way but getter and setter have something special that is when using private member of parent class in child class in inheritance. You can make it possible through using getter and setter.

package stackoverflow;

    public class StackoverFlow 

    {

        private int x;

        public int getX()
        {
            return x;
        }

        public int setX(int x)
        {
          return  this.x = x;
        }
         public void showX()
         {
             System.out.println("value of x  "+x);
         }


        public static void main(String[] args) {

            StackoverFlow sto = new StackoverFlow();
            sto.setX(10);
            sto.getX();
            sto.showX();
        }

    }