Passing parameter to class property in Java

Question

I have this property in a visual basic class. NET 2008, the property in addition to the get and set has a parameter called "pParam. "

Public Property UpdateField(ByVal pParam As String) As String
        Get
            Return Me.idField
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            Me.idField = value
            If pParam = "NEW" Then
        // some code here
            End If
        End Set
End Property

which is the equivalent of this in java code?

to use I do the following:

oClass.UpdateField("NEW") = 1850

I have this code in java

public void setUpdateField(String idField) {
    this.idField = idField;
}
public String getUpdateField() {
    return idField;
}

but I need to put the parameter "pParam"

Thanks in advance.

What are you trying to do with pParam? Isn't it just asking in set if the field equals some value? So you could just do `if (idField.equals("NEW"))`? — Cheryl Simon, Feb 07 '11 at 22:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '11 at 22:15

What you've got in the .NET code is an indexer in C# terms. There's no equivalent in Java - you'll just need to take two parameters:

public void setUpdateField(String idField, String pParam) {
    ...
}

Frankly I think it's a little odd that the "getter" in .NET doesn't seem to use the index...

Passing parameter to class property in Java

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