Day10 : Wrapper Class
Wrapper Class
In java corresponding to 8 primitive datatype their is a set of 8 special classes. These classes have their names resembling with the names of the datatype and the database and collectively all 8 of them are called as wrapper classes. All these wrapper class are available in the package "java.lang" and following are their names.
- Integer
- Byte
- Short
- Long
- Float
- Double
- Character
- Boolean
What is the use of wrapper class in java?
Wrapper classes are use by programmer for two purposes :
(1) We use them for converting string representation of the value to its original primitive form. For Example : To convert "25" to 25. We use the parseInt() belonging to wrapper class integer as shown below:
int a;
a = Integer.parseInt("25");
Likewise we've other parseXXX() method belonging to their respective wrapper classes.
(2) Programmer also use wrapper class for converting a variable of primitive datatype into corresponding object.
For Example :
int a = 10;
The above statement is declaring a as a variable and if required then we can convert the variable a into integer object and is done by using the Wrapper class integer as shown below:
Integer obj = a;
This is needed in the topic collection.
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