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Marc
Marc

Reputation: 2859

get access to written properties of a class

I'm still not practiced in oop.. now I know the importantness of it :)

I have many methods and now I like to save collected strings in public variables to have the possiblity to access them from another function.

normaly I would make just public or private variables with get and set.

But this I think it's not so clean because this propertys are in "every intellisense" visible.

I think to do this into a class may be "testClass" and define the properties there.

But now, how I access to the values which I have written into the propertys of this class? To write them in I have to create a new instance of the class, but how access to the created instance?

// edit

    protected void GetValues()
{
    // Access to the public variable town.

    string myNewtown = publictown;
    string myNewName = publicname;

    // How to acces to the values which I saved in the class informations? 
    // I like anything like that
    string myNewtown = informations.publictown;
    string myNewName = informations.publicname;

    // or

    string myNewtown = myinfo.publictown;
    string myNewName = myinfo.publicname;

}

protected void Setvalues()
{
    informations myinfo = new informations()
    {
        publicname = "leo",
        publictown = "london"
    };
}

private string publicname { get; set; }
private string publictown { get; set; }

private class informations
{
    public string publicname { get; set; }
    public string publictown { get; set; }
}

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (2)

elder_george
elder_george

Reputation: 7879

If you want access a created object, you need to store reference to it after creating.

Having look at your sample, I can offer you following change:

protected void GetValues()
{
// Access to the public variable town.

    string myNewtown = publictown;
    string myNewName = publicname;

// or

    string myNewtown = myinfo.publictown;
    string myNewName = myinfo.publicname;
}

protected void Setvalues()
{
    publicname = "leo";
    publictown = "london";
}

// we store reference to internal object
informations myinfo = new informations();
// and delegate property access to its properties.
public string publicname 
{ 
    get{ return informations.publicname;} 
    set{ informations.publicname = value; } 
}
public string publictown 
{ 
    get{ return informations.publictown;} 
    set{ informations.publictown = value; } 
}


private class informations
{
    public string publicname { get; set; }
    public string publictown { get; set; }
}

Upvotes: 1

Heinzi
Heinzi

Reputation: 172310

If you want your properties to be accessible without creating an instance, use the static keyword.

EDIT: In your example, you would replace

public string publicname { get; set; }

with

public static string publicname { get; set; }

which allows you to read the field as

string myNewname = informations.publicname;

and set it with

informations.publicname = "whatever";

Of course, this means that you can only have one instance of publicname in your application -- in particular, in an ASP.NET application, this might not be what you want!

Upvotes: 1

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