Encapsulation

Encapsulation

Objectbatch supports the following method types:

• public
• private
• static

Public

A public method in objectbatch needs to be prefixed by the public method prefix -public. For example, to define a method myMethod in a class definition file, we may write:

:public-myMethod
    echo public method
exit /b

To call the method myMethod defined above from outside the class for a given object obj, we may use the following syntax:

call # obj myMethod

Note that we do not need to specify the public- prefix when calling the method outside the class, as the prefix is automatically added when executing the class header.

Private

Private methods in objectbatch do not use the public method prefix -public and are thus not callable from outside the class. However, they may be called using normal batch label call syntax from within the class, e.g.:

:myPrivateMethod
    echo this is a private method
exit /b

:public-myMethod
    call :myPrivateMethod
exit /b

Static

Static methods in objectbatch are public methods which do not require access to a class instance. We may use the following syntax to call a given static method myMethod for a given class MyClass:

call MyClass static myMethod

More information

More information can be found in the home page, the quick start page and the examples.