About this ()

I didn't understand the meaning of this (), so I'll write it down.

Example of use

Code that calculates the time when the program was executed.

qiita.java


import java.util.*;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    System.out.println(new Date());        

When you run

qiita.java



Fri Feb 28 14:22:03 UTC 2020     

Checking what's happening with new Date ()

Date.class



public class Date
    implements java.io.Serializable, Cloneable, Comparable<Date>
{
    private static final BaseCalendar gcal =
                                CalendarSystem.getGregorianCalendar();
    private static BaseCalendar jcal;

    private transient long fastTime;

    private transient BaseCalendar.Date cdate;

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 7523967970034938905L;

    public Date() {
        this(System.currentTimeMillis());
    }

    public Date(long date) {
        fastTime = date;
    }
}   

came out. this (). System.currentTimeMillis () seems to be a method that returns the OS time. This () is called by the constructor below this.

Date.class



    public Date(long date) {
        fastTime = date;
    }  

You can see that it is overloaded. This constructor just puts time in the fields. In other words, this () meant calling a constructor with the same arguments.

Summary of this ()

-This () is used when calling the constructor. -Determine which constructor to call based on the argument. -Can be used when you want to set a default value.

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