To use fields or methods that belong to a class (other than its constructors), you need to use dot notation. This is actually not anything new with this concept—you’ve used it to access methods in the
Math class and to call methods on Strings. For example:System.out.println(Math.PI); // dot notation to access the pi constant String s = "abcd"; s = s.toUpperCase(); // dot notation to call toUpperCase method System.out.print(s); // prints "ABCD" Person myPerson = new Person(); // call constructor myPerson.eat("berries"); // dot notation to accesss the eat method
Practice
TestBook
Create a driver class called
TestBook to test your Book class that you wrote in the last practice exercise. In the main method of TestBook, create a Book object using the 5-argument constructor. Print out the result of calling all of the getter methods on the Book object. Then use the setter methods to change each of the 5 fields, and print out the result of calling all of the getter methods on the Book object again to check that the setter methods work.Copyright © 2021 Code 4 Tomorrow. All rights reserved.
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