How Encapsulation is different from data hiding

[abhi143]

Can anybody tell me How Encapsulation is different from data hiding ?

I have gone through the book and google search but I do not understand how Encapsulation is different from data hiding

Encapsulation means to protect sensitive informationin an object by making members protected or private in a class

Data hiding means to make sure that sensitive data is hidden from user

class Employee {
private:
// Private member
int salary;

public:
// Setter
void setSalary(int s) {
      salary = s;
    }
// Getter
int getSalary() {
return salary;
    }
};

[Zeus_]

Encapsulation in C++ - GeeksforGeeks
Abstraction in C++ - GeeksforGeeks
Object Oriented Programming in C++ - GeeksforGeeks

This is the first thing that pops up when you search for "differences between data hiding and encapsulation" which makes me doubt what you googled up.... This is one of many websites that'll give a pretty good knowledge of what the differences are. There are thousands out there.
Difference Between Data Hiding and Encapsulation (with Comparison Chart) - Tech Difference

Encapsulation is the act of wrapping things into a single unit. Data hiding is the act of prohibiting data access.

Your classes are the encapsulators. You encapsulate the data members and methods in the class. You can set different access levels for what kind of access you want to provide to those data members namely: "private" , "protected" and "public". Now you see the difference? Data Hiding can be enforced by Encapsulation. The data that you don't want someone else to directly access, you hide it. But, what makes you able to hide it? It's your encapsulator, the class you use for encapsulation.

[abhi143]

This is the first thing that pops up when you search for "differences between data hiding and encapsulation" which makes me doubt what you googled up.... This is one of many websites that'll give a pretty good knowledge of what the differences are. There are thousands out there..

this page Data encapsulation - Wikipedia say data hiding and encapsulation are the same

I am confused because i don't see the solid difference between them. What do you they are different or same so if they are different how they are different ?

[stahta01]

Try using the internet links posted above!

Tim S.

[Zeus_]

> how are they different?

Did you not read my post?

There are two sub-links in the Wikipedia page you posted.
Encapsulation (computer programming) - Wikipedia
Information hiding - Wikipedia

Read through them carefully when you get time. Oh, and there is also another link to a comparison chart in my previous post. Encapsulation and Data Hiding are two different things. The former is the enforcer of the latter. If you want to learn OOP, learn it the right way. Be crystal clear with definitions and differences. Good luck