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Code Smell 68 - Getters
Getting things is widespread and safe. But it is a very bad practice. Problems Naming Information Hiding Coupling Encapsulation Violation Mutability Anemic Models Solutions Avoid Getters Use domain names instead Protect your implementation...
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Rodrigo
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Interesting article Maxi Contieri. If I get it right (see what I did there ) getters could be fine to be used if we assign a better name by removing the ¨get¨prefix and using a domain name instead. Another restriction is that we should use them only on safe operations, such as reading.
They become a problem when we expose the object internals to mutate its data from the outside, breaking encapsulation as consequence, is that right?