Thread: accessing setter methods

How does it not work?

Right. What does the error message mean to you?

EDIT:
Well, tabstop is cutting to the chase, so I guess I might as well do so as well:

Originally Posted by Alexius Lim

How to i access setter from within a setter?

You call the function. The problem is, you need a concrete example. Let's consider your getter example first:

Originally Posted by Alexius Lim

i know that getter methods can be access like

Code:

getAccounts().getAccountNumber(); // for example

The above code does not access a getter from within a getter. Rather, what it does is function chaining: getAccounts() returns a value, presumably of some class type, then you called the getAccountNumber() member function with that object returned.

Originally Posted by Alexius Lim

but for setters how do i do it? this doesnt seem to work though

Code:

setAccounts().setAccountNumber(accountNumber);

The above code is similiar to your previous example. The problem is that setAccounts apparently takes an argument that you did not provide. But what are you trying to do? You're trying to call setAccounts to set accounts? What does that mean? Why do you then want to call setAccountNumber with what it returns?

Originally Posted by Alexius Lim

Erm. Student has accounts. And within these accounts, it has other accounts information such as the name amount etc. I'm trying to set those members.

Okay. So what I expect is something like this:

Code:

Student student;
// ...
Account& account = student.getAccounts(some_account_identifier);
account.setAccountNumber(some_value);
std::cout << account.getAccountNumber() << std::endl;