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Call by Reference

The document discusses call by reference in Java by passing an object to a method which modifies the instance variables of the object. It provides an example class Test that takes integer parameters in the constructor and a method meth that doubles one instance variable and halves the other when passed a Test object. The main method creates a Test object, calls the meth method on it to modify the instance variables, and prints the values before and after to demonstrate call by reference.

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Call by Reference

The document discusses call by reference in Java by passing an object to a method which modifies the instance variables of the object. It provides an example class Test that takes integer parameters in the constructor and a method meth that doubles one instance variable and halves the other when passed a Test object. The main method creates a Test object, calls the meth method on it to modify the instance variables, and prints the values before and after to demonstrate call by reference.

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call by reference

class Operation{
int data=50;

void change(int data){


data=data+100;//changes will be in the local variable only
}

public static void main(String args[]){


Operation op=new Operation();

System.out.println("before change "+op.data);


op.change(500);
System.out.println("after change "+op.data);

}
}
class Operation2{
int data=50;

void change(Operation2 op){


op.data=op.data+100;//changes will be in the instance variable
}

public static void main(String args[]){


Operation2 op=new Operation2();

System.out.println("before change "+op.data);


op.change(op);//passing object
System.out.println("after change "+op.data);

}
}

Java Call by Reference Example

Below is an example program given, uses call by reference method, to pass


argument/parameter to the method in Java:

/* Java Program Example - Java Argument Passing


* Objects are passed through their reference */

class Test
{
int a, b;

Test(int i, int j)
{
a = i;
b = j;
}

/* pass an object */
void meth(Test o)
{
o.a = o.a * 2;
o.b = o.b / 2;
}
}

public class JavaProgram


{
public static void main(String args[])
{

Test obj = new Test(150, 200);

int a = 150, b = 200;

System.out.println("The value of obj.a and obj.b before call


:");
System.out.println("obj.a = " + obj.a + "\t obj.b = " + obj.b);

obj.meth(obj);

System.out.println("\nThe value of obj.a and obj.b after call :


");
System.out.println("obj.a = " + obj.a + "\t obj.b = " + obj.b);

}
}

When the above Java program is compile and executed, it will produce the
following output:
Write a java program based on call by value and call by reference

class Operation

int data=50; //instance variable

void change(int data)//passing primitive type as an argument

data=data+100;//changes will be in the local variable only

void change(Operation op1)//passing reference i.e object as an argument

op1.data=op1.data+100;//changes will be in the instance variable

public static void main(String args[]){

Operation op=new Operation();

//call by value

System.out.println("before change "+op.data);

op.change(500);

System.out.println("after change "+op.data);

//call by reference

System.out.println("before change "+op.data);

op.change(op);//passing object

System.out.println("after change "+op.data);

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