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<v ->Let's now talk about a feature</v>

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that is actually common to all objects in JavaScript,

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and that's getters and setters.

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So every object in JavaScript

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can have setter and getter properties.

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And we call these special properties assessor properties,

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while the more normal properties are called data properties.

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So getters and setters are basically functions

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that get and set a value so just as the name says,

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but on the outside they still look like regular properties.

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And so let's first take a look at getters and setters

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in a simple object literal,

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and for that I'm gonna use the bank account example

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from the Bankist application.

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So very simple object literal here.

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The owner is Jonas.

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Then some simple movements.

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So the values here don't really matter, okay?

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Oh, and of course I'm writing this object all wrong.

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Maybe you have already been noticing that.

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Okay, but now it should be correct.

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All right, but now to add a getter to this object.

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We can start by basically writing a normal method.

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So let's say that we want a method

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to get the latest movement and so let's call it latest.

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And then to transform this into a getter

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we simply prepend the keyword get.

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All right, and so let's simply return the last movement here

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so that's this.movements.slice -1.

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But this is actually gonna return an array,

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so an array with the last position

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and so we can simply take that out using the pop method.

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And we could've used destructuring as well,

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but I didn't want to save this

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into an external variable first.

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And so now we can use this getter like this.

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So account and then we say latest,

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but we simply use it as a property.

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All right, so we don't call the method,

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but instead we write it as if it was just a property.

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So let's see, and indeed that returns 300.

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So this can be very useful

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when we want to read something as a property,

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but still need to do some calculations before.

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Okay, and now we can do the same also as a setter.

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So we say set, latest again

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and then here we can basically add a new movement

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to the array.

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And any setter method needs to have exactly one parameter.

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So in this case that's simply a movement.

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So let's say this.movements.push

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and then that movement that we just passed into.

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Now it is not mandatory to specify a setter

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when we have a getter for the same property.

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Okay, so just a getter or just a setter would be enough.

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And so, how do we use the setter now?

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So if it was a regular method then we would have to do this.

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So account.latest and then call it with the movement,

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let's say 50.

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But now this is actually like a property and not a method.

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And so we can simply set it

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just like we set any other property.

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So we essentially set it equal to 50.

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And so now if we take a look at the movements here,

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it will then give us the complete array

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with the 50 there at the end.

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And so in a nutshell this is how getters and setters work

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for any regular object in JavaScript.

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Now however, classes do also have getters and setters,

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and they do indeed work in the exact same way.

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And so let's try them out now here in our person class.

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So here we can for example add a getter

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for the age property.

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So we can say get age and then we return the age.

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So this is of course very similar to the calcAge method

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that we already have here but that doesn't matter

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because this is really just a demonstration example.

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All right, and so like this we will be able

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to basically read the age of any object using a property.

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So let's try that here for example, jessica.age,

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and this time we actually need to log it to the console.

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And you see here we now get the same value.

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All right, so you see that the getter is indeed

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just like any other regular method

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that we set on the prototype.

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And in fact we can also check that out here.

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So if we take a look at the prototype of Jessica,

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it will be right there.

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Now it has these dots here

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because it's only calculated once we actually click this.

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Okay?

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So here too it already looks as if it would be a property

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and not a method.

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We still have the get method down here,

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but then it's also kind of ended as a property.

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All right?

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So that's a very simple use case of a getter,

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but setters and getters can actually be very useful

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for data validation and as an example,

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let's try some validation with the name.

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So for that I will actually change a firstName here

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to fullName.

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And so now here we expect a full name.

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So a name which basically contains a space.

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So let's say Jessica Davis here,

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and so now we can create a setter for the fullName property

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which will check if this is actually a full name.

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All right, so set fullName,

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and then we need the name itself,

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and then here we need some logic.

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So to test if it contains a space,

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if the name includes a space,

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and I'm not sure if it is called includes actually.

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Now let me just test it here very quick.

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Okay, we have to comment out this part.

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All right, so this method actually does exist.

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So I wasn't sure if it only exists on erase,

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but indeed it also exists on strings.

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And so in this case then we actually want to set

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this.fullName to the name that was received.

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But if not, we want to give an alert.

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So the given name is not a full name.

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So in this case what's really important to understand

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is that we are creating a setter for a property name

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that does already exist.

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So fullName is already a property

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that are trying to set here,

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but then we also have the setter.

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And so now what's gonna happen is

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that each time this code here is executed,

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so whenever we set the fullName on the this keyword,

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then actually this method here,

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so this setter is gonna be executed.

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And so that name that we pass in as fullName

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will then become this name.

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All right, let's check that out actually.

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And so now as we create Jessica here,

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you will see and indeed it, we saw Jessica Davis here,

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but now we got this crazy error here

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of maximum call stack size exceeded.

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Now that's a very cryptic error message,

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but what happens here is that there is a conflict.

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So right now both the setter function

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and this constructor function

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are trying to set the exact same property name.

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And so that gives origin to this weird error.

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So what we need to do instead

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is to here create a new property name.

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And the convention for doing that,

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so when we have a setter which is trying to set a property

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that does already exist,

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then here as a convention we add an underscore.

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So again, this is just a convention,

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it's not a JavaScript feature.

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So it's really just a different variable name

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to avoid that naming conflict.

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However, now when we do this,

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we are actually creating a new variable,

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so a fullName variable.

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So let's try this now actually.

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So if we try to look at Jessica Davis you see that right now

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the property that exists is underscore fullName.

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And so right now we cannot do jessica.fullName

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because that simply doesn't exist.

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And so to fix this we now also need to create a getter

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for the fullName property.

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And so that will simply return the underscore fullName.

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So let's see.

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So return this._fullName.

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And so if we try to do the same now,

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then you see that we are back to having this fullName here.

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All right?

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And of course, the actual property that is here

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is now still underscore fullName,

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because well that's what we do here in the setter, right?

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But then we can also compute this full name

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just as we can compute the age.

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So this pattern here is important to understand

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whenever we try to set a property that already exists.

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Now let's try another name here just to see what happens,

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and actually after all this.

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So let's create a Walter object here.

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New PersonCl, that's right.

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And now we're just using a name with one word,

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let's say 1965 and so now we get this error.

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So Walter is not a full name,

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and so right now if we check out Walter,

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age probably doesn't have any name, and yeah it doesn't.

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So just the birth year now.

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But if we then put it as a full name,

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so Walter White then indeed, Walter like this,

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then we get the underscore fullName.

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But just like before we can then also access walter.fullName

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because of that setter or actually of that getter

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that we just defined earlier.

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Now okay, great, so this is another nice feature of classes

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that can be very useful sometimes.

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Now we don't need to use getters or setters,

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and many people actually don't,

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but yeah, as I just said sometimes it's just nice

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to be able to use these features

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and especially when we need like a validation like this

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by the time we are creating a new object.

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So that's essentially what this setter here does.

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Next up,

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we're gonna take a look at yet another feature of classes,

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which is static methods.

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So let's check that out right now.