hi My friend was asked a question in google about private access modifiers.
question was :
if you have setters and getters methods for accessing private variables, how are you providing security for private variables if the client can set the private variable value using setter methods
indeed. There is a strong school of thought that says you shouldn't generally have setters at all, just getters, and set every field through the constructor only (essentially making as many objects immutable as possible).
You could say you're providing the option of increased security when using setters as you can write them to provide for example validation (or even authorisation), though you certainly don't have to.
Encapsulation is what is provided by OOP, not security. I suspect what you mean is encapsulation.
Making an object immutable is no different security-wise, or encapsulation-wise then having mutators. Whether you are passing data through a constructor gains no "security" benefits over passing it to a mutator. There are plenty of benefits to using immutable classes but are related to performance and memory usage.
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Well, that would depend on your definition of security. If I define it as "I instantiate an object and I want to prevent you from changing it" then immutable is more secure than a setter. If I mean "I want to let you change it within some domain of values" then a setter with validation is more secure than a public variable. And if I mean "I don't want you to know this variable even exists" ... what implementation would you choose?
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