Java Coding Problems

Generating getters and setters

Let's assume that Melon has three fields (type, weight, and ripe) and defines only a getter for type and a setter for ripe:

public class Melon {  private String type;  private int weight;  private boolean ripe;  ...  public String getType() {    return type;  }  public void setRipe(boolean ripe) {    this.ripe = ripe;  }  ...}

In order to generate the missing getters and setters, we start by identifying them. The following solution loops the declared fields of the given class and assumes that a foo field doesn't have a getter if the following apply:

• There is no get/isFoo() method
• The return type is not the same as the field type
• The number of arguments is not 0

For each missing getter, this solution adds in a map an entry ...