If I have many private Data members in class... is there any other way of setting and getting instead of declaring setter and getter individually? If so please help. Thankyou
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You can always make them public – ForceBru Feb 25 '16 at 12:13
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2What are you asking here? Are you looking for a way to get automatically-generated getter/setter functions? – Cody Gray - on strike Feb 25 '16 at 12:15
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Please see [Are getters and setters poor design?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/565095/are-getters-and-setters-poor-design-contradictory-advice-seen) – Bo Persson Feb 25 '16 at 12:21
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This is a really common pattern: It is considered best practice is to have set and get functions instead of making a variable public, even if all the accessors do is modify or return the value. C++ does not have anything built into the language to reduce the amount of typing needed.
Depending upon your needs, one option is to use a third party library. For example, Qt provides Q_PROPERTY which provides what you ask for plus quite a bit more, like serialization. That type of class is not appropriate for a small, efficient C++ class, but it is a good option for large classes with lots of members (such as a class with all a member for each entry in a dialog box).
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Qt's `Q_PROPERTY` mechanism doesn't really have anything to do with C++. It uses a separate meta-object compiler. So suggesting it as merely a "third party library" is a little bit misleading, I think. As an extra-linguistic mechanism, it is far more than that. – Cody Gray - on strike Feb 25 '16 at 12:44
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Yes. To clarify, my point was exactly that: depending on the situation, extra-linguistic features might be a possibility. However, if one of my coders said "I don't need Qt, but I added it to this project just so I don't have to write accessors" then they'd probably get fired..... ;) – Rob L Feb 25 '16 at 14:56