I have a class, Folder, that I want to hold a reference to its parent
Folder as well as its subfolders.
I'm using List<Folder> to hold its list of sub folders. What I want to
do is when a folder is added to this list, automatically set the parent
reference.
But this seems impossible. It seems like I need to keep List<Folder>
private and expose an "AddFolder" method that adds the folder to the
list, and then also sets the folder's parent reference.
Something like this:
class Folder
{
private List<Folder> _subFolders;
public void AddFolder(Folde r f)
{
_subFolders.Add (f);
f.Parent = this;
}
} 1 1627
Hi Brian,
the code you have shown is a good example of encapsulation which is a good
concept to model in your code. You have hidden the underlying datatype from
the user and encapsulated your processing. If you expose your data to the
user directly then they may perform undesirable actions upon it. Ideally
keep your data type encapsulated inside the class and provide these accessor
methods when possible.
Mark.
"Brian P" wrote: I have a class, Folder, that I want to hold a reference to its parent Folder as well as its subfolders.
I'm using List<Folder> to hold its list of sub folders. What I want to do is when a folder is added to this list, automatically set the parent reference.
But this seems impossible. It seems like I need to keep List<Folder> private and expose an "AddFolder" method that adds the folder to the list, and then also sets the folder's parent reference.
Something like this:
class Folder { private List<Folder> _subFolders;
public void AddFolder(Folde r f) { _subFolders.Add (f); f.Parent = this; }
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