Use Of Constructor In Java
Constructor in Java
Here, on this page, we will discuss about the uses of constructor in java programming and why do we need Java Constructors,
A Java constructor is a special method that is used to initialize objects. The constructor is called when an object of a class is created. It can be used to set initial values for object attributes.
Need of Constructor:
Constructors in java is as similar to methods in Java. It invokes automatically at the time of initialization or the object creation. It has the same name as of class name. It is called when an instance of the class is created. we don’t need to call it manually or we can say that the constructor is the method that can be invoked using the new operator at the time of object creation.
There are different reasons to use constructor that can be:
- The main use of Constructor is to initialize the data fields of objects in the class. You can also initialize your required data sets with the help of parametrized constructor.
- Constructor doesn’t have any return type, if it contains a return type it’ll be treated as methods by the compiler or JVM machine which makes them different from the class methods and helps to initialize the values accordingly.
- If we don’t want to initialize the values of the data fields of a class thenthere are some values which will be assigned automatically to the data fields at the time of object creation that are :
- All boolean data fields will be set as false.
- All integer data fields will be set as 0.
- All String data fields will be set as null.
Example:
import java.util.*;
// defining the student class
class Student {
int id;
String name;
// Constructor
Student(int i, String n) {
id = i;
name = n;
}
// defining the Method
void display() {
System.out.println(id + " " + name);
}
}
class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Creating objects and passing values
Student s1 = new Student(101, "John");
Student s2 = new Student(102, "Jane");
// Calling display method
s1.display();
s2.display();
}
}
Output: 101 John 102 Jane
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