How do I prevent the modification of a private field in a class?

Question

Imagine that I have this class:

public class Test
{
  private String[] arr = new String[]{\"1\",\"2\"};    

  public String[] getArr() 
  {
    return arr;
         


        

Answer 1

at this point of view you should use system array copy:

public String[] getArr() {
   if (arr != null) {
      String[] arrcpy = new String[arr.length];
      System.arraycopy(arr, 0, arrcpy, 0, arr.length);
      return arrcpy;
   } else
      return null;
   }
}