Does Java have "properties" that work the same way properties work in C#?

Question

In C#, you can use properties to make a data field publicly accessible (allowing the user to directly access it), and yet retain the ability to perform data validation on those directly-accessed fields. Does Java have something similar? For Instance, suppose there exists a C# class with the following implementation(see below):

public class newInt{      public newInt(){...}      public int x{         get{ return this.x }         set{ this.x = isValid(value) }     } }  private static int isValid(int value){...} 

This definition in the class allows the user to "naturally" use the data field 'x' when retrieving values from it and assigning values to it. Below is how it would be used in main.

public class Test{      public static void main(String[] args){          newInt a = new newInt();         a.x = 50;          int b = a.x;     } } 

The question is... can java do this as well? if so, what is it called?

Answer 1

No.

That's why Java has getters/setters.

In C# you typically have something like:

public class SomeObject {     private string _title = "";      public string Title { get { return _title; } set { _title = value; } } }  // Or with Auto-Properties public class SomeObjectAutoProperties {     public string Title { get; set; } } 

The Java getter/setter equivalent would be:

public class SomeObject {     private String _title = "";      public string getTitle() { return _title; }      public void setTitle(String value) { _title = value; } }