Using Getter and Setter for arraylist in java

Question

I have a problem that I want to set and get an ArrayList from setter and getter methods of android. But I am new to android and Java and don't know how to do that? Can anyone help me regarding this problem?

Answer 1

Example -

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Test {

List<String> list = null;

public List<String> getList() {
    return list;
}

public void setList(List<String> list) {
    this.list = list;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Test test = new Test();
    List<String> sample = new ArrayList<String>();
    sample.add("element 1");
    test.setList(sample);
    List<String> sample1 = test.getList();
}
}

Answer 2

For better Encapsulation / OO design I would do following

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class TestListGetterSetter {
List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();

//Return copy of the list
public List<String> getList() {
    return new ArrayList<>(list);
}

// Copy source list into destination list
public void setList(List<String> listToBeSet) {
    if (listToBeSet != null)
        this.list.addAll(listToBeSet);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    TestListGetterSetter testListGetterSetter = new TestListGetterSetter();

    List<String> clientList = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("foo", "bar", "HiHa"));

    testListGetterSetter.setList(clientList);
    System.out.println("TestListGetterSetter.list before clientList modification = " + testListGetterSetter.getList());

    //Now you can change "clientList" without affecting testListGetterSetter object
    clientList.add("1");
    System.out.println("clientList modified List = " + clientList);
    System.out.println("TestListGetterSetter.list after clientList modification = " + testListGetterSetter.getList());
  }
}

Answer 3

    ArrayList<String> arrList = new ArrayList<String>();  

    public ArrayList<String> getArrList() {
        return arrList;
    }

    public void setArrList(ArrayList<String> arrList) {
        this.arrList = arrList;
    }

Answer 4

Generally getter and setter methods are for assign variable and get variables value from that

There is not any difference of getter and setter methods for arraylist or for int of a class 

ArrayList<String> arrList;

    public ArrayList<String> getArrList() {
        return arrList;
    }

    public void setArrList(ArrayList<String> arrList) {
        this.arrList = arrList;
    }

Same for Int

int id;

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

Answer 5

please try this

  public static ArrayList<books> al = new ArrayList<books>();
  books book=new books(id,name,type);
                book1 b1=new book1(id,name,type);
                al.add(book);
                al.add(book1);   //error at book1

Answer 6

I am not familiar with android. But in JAVA, if you want to use set and get method, you need to declare the List first.

private List arrayList = new ArrayList();

public List getArrayList() {
    return arrayList;
}

public void setArrayList(List arrayList) {
    this.arrayList = arrayList;
}

Answer 7

Try these

public ArrayList getArrayList() {
    return arraylist;
}

public void setArrayList(ArrayList arraylist) {
    this.arraylist = arraylist;
}