what is an alternative to a setter method?-CodePudding

So first I'd like to specify that I'm still learning to program. I have a Profile Class that takes several attributes like name, age, education etc, but i don't know how to create a method that lets the user "update" their data. The variables are also public and the method needs to be able to update every variable, so I can't use a setter method in this case since it won't even take more than exactly one parameter. Can anyone please help?

public class Profile (
     public String name;
     public int age; 
     public string address;
     public string email;
     public string phone; 

public void update_profile(string a, int b, string c, string d, string f)
{ 
     this.name = a;
     this.age = b;
     this.address = c;
     this.email = d;
     this.phone = f;
}

CodePudding user response：

I think you are looking for this kind of example

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {

    Profile profile1 = new Profile("Dinuka",25,"Sri lanka","[email protected]","0787777");
    
    Profile profile2 = new Profile();
    profile2.setName("add");
    profile2.setAge(45);
    profile2.setAddress("add");
    profile2.setEmail("add");
    profile2.setPhone("add");
}
}

class Profile {
private String name;
private int age;
private String address;
private String email;
private String phone;

public Profile() {

}

public Profile(String name, int age, String address, String email, String phone) {
    this.name = name;
    this.age = age;
    this.address = address;
    this.email = email;
    this.phone = phone;
}

public String getName() {
    return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}

public int getAge() {
    return age;
}

public void setAge(int age) {
    this.age = age;
}

public String getAddress() {
    return address;
}

public void setAddress(String address) {
    this.address = address;
}

public String getEmail() {
    return email;
}

public void setEmail(String email) {
    this.email = email;
}

public String getPhone() {
    return phone;
}

public void setPhone(String phone) {
    this.phone = phone;
}

}

CodePudding user response：

Please use standard Java convention with getter and setter methods. Variables should be private and every variable should have separate setter and getter for setting and getting values:

public class Profile (
 private String name;
 private int age; 
 private String address;
 private String email;
 private String phone; 

 public setName(String name) {
   this.name = name;
 }

 public getName() {
   return name;
 }

 public setAge(int age) {
   this.age = age;
 }

 public getAge() {
   return age;
 }
 ...


}