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โ˜• JAVA TRICK: Compact Record Constructors

October 31, 2021

You know how to use records to model data carriers andย 

how to verify incoming data during construction,

but did you know๐Ÿ’ก that you don't have to list the parameters of all record constructors?

A record's ๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ constructor has one argument per component

but in its ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’• form, you don't have to list them.

You can't assign fields, that happens in compiler-generated code after yours,

but you can reassign the parameters, which leads to the same result.

๐–๐ˆ๐“๐‡ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ

๐–๐ˆ๐“๐‡๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ