Re: naming conventions

From: P.Hill (goodhill.REMOVE_at_xmissionREMOVE.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:21:48 -0700

Alexandr Molochnikov wrote:

>>2. sucking data out of GUI components, and validating it.
>
>
> Getter methods. For JComponent this would be getText(). Again, for
> generality reasons, one can use getValue() that returns an Object, like Date
> or Boolean, or getInteger(), getDouble() etc. for primitives.
>

I think Roedy may have been asking about name of the controller method which
calls the getters and does the validation, not the name of the getter.

-Paul

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