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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534603
Pages 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
First Programming Steps in Java Understanding Classes, Objects, and Their Usage in Java Handling Strings and Their Functions in Java Building Blocks for Java Programs – Loops and Conditions Everything You Need to Know About Interfaces and Inheritance Learn Everything about Arrays Understanding Date Class and Constructors in Java 11 Importance of the super and this Keywords and Exceptions in Java Understanding the Collections Framework The Importance of the final Keyword, Packages, and Modifiers Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Importance of the this keyword


There is one more keyword in Java that is just like the super keyword: this. In this section, we will take a look at the this keyword.

Let's explain the this keyword with an example. Create a class named thisDemo and declare a variable, a, and assign the value 2 to it. We define a getData() method in its class, declare the a variable inside it, and assign the value 3 to it. We also add a print statement in it. The code will look as follows:

package coreJava;public class thisDemo
{
    int a= 2;
    public void getData()
    {
        int a= 3;
        System.out.println(a);
    }

As we can see, the value of a is 2 in the entire class, but in one specific method, getData(), we want the value of the variable to be 3. In this code, we want to call both values of a, that is, 2 and 3. We create an object in the main method and add the td object in it. The code for the td object is as follows:

thisDemo td=new thisDemo();
td.getData();

If we run the code, the output we...

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