How to avoid stack overflow errors when defining s

Question

People of stackoverflow. I am new to c# and this is the first time I have not been able to find an answer to one of my elementary questions. Who can help me?!I am trying to define set logic for a public instance field.

This runs flawlessly,

public string Headline {get; set;}

This results in stack overflow

public string Headline
{ get { return Headline; } set { Headline = value; } }

Answer 1

Because you're returning the same thing recursively.

private string _headLine

public string Headline
{ 
   get 
   { return _headline; } 
   set 
   { _headline = value; } 
}

Answer 2

In this case instead of generating a new variable like the rest of the answers are saying. You can simply just write.

public string Headline { get; set;}

This will allow anyone to retrieve this variable which you could re write as

public string Headline;

If you want the setting to be private you can say.

public string Headline { get; private set; }

I like it this way better because this way you don't have to allocate a new variable and the readability of the code greatly increases :)

Answer 3

You're calling the getter and setter recursively (calling themselves infinitely), inevitably causing a stack overflow.

Surely this is what you mean to be doing:

private string headline;
public string Headline
{
    get { return headline; }
    set { headline = value; }
}

Note that this is unnecessary if you don't plan to introduce any further get/set logic, as this is exactly what your first example does behind the scenes.

When learning about properties in c#, it helps to think of them not as data, but as a pair of methods with the following signatures:

public string get_Headline() { ... }
public void set_Headline(string value) { ... }

In fact, this is exactly how the compiler defines them.

Now it's easy to see that your initial code would call set_Headline recursively.

Answer 4

You need a backing field if you are trying to use set and get with your property.

private string _headline; //backing field.

public string Headline
{
    get { return _headline; }
    set { _headline = value; }
} 

In your current code, you are trying to set your property recursively, and thus resulting in stackoverflow exception