I have a boolean field called showLabels in a Bean class, and I want to provide getter and setter methods for it. The setter will be setShowLabels, but should the getter be isShowingLabels, isShowLabels (that's really weird sounding), or setShowLabels?
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Peter C
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It should be isShowLabels weird as that may sound, that's the convention. You could always rename the boolean to showingLabels.
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1+1, and more importantly than that it's convention, it's also *required* if you want to use classes like `Introspector`. – Kirk Woll Oct 21 '10 at 23:31
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additionally, if using Eclipse, it can generate it for you. – NG. Oct 21 '10 at 23:31
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Thank you. I will probably rename the field to showingLabels, and have `setShowingLabels` and `isShowingLabels`. – Peter C Oct 21 '10 at 23:36
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@alpha123 - Glad to help! If you like the answer click the checkmark to mark it as correct. – Adam Oct 21 '10 at 23:41
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Follow the convention, when when it sucks :-) Will save time and pain later. – Tony Ennis Oct 21 '10 at 23:45
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@adam it said I had to wait 5 minutes. I waited, and now have. – Peter C Oct 21 '10 at 23:48