What is the return type of a Constructor in Java?

A constructor is similar to method and it is invoked at the time creating an object of the class, it is generally used to initialize the instance variables of a class. The constructors have same name as their class.

Return type of a constructor

• A constructor doesn’t have any return type.
• The data type of the value retuned by a method may vary, return type of a method indicates this value.
• A constructor doesn’t return any values explicitly, it returns the instance of the class to which it belongs.

Example

Following is an example of a constructor in java −

Live Demo

public class Sample{
   public Sample(){
      System.out.println("Hello how are you");
   }  
   public Sample(String data){
      System.out.println(data);
   }  
   public static void main(String args[]){
      Sample obj = new Sample("Tutorialspoint");
   }  
}

Output

Tutorialspoint

Example

Live Demo

class Student{
   Integer age;
   Student(Integer age){
      this.age = age;
   }
   public void display() {
      System.out.println("Value of age: "+this.age);  
   }
}
public class GenericsExample {  
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      Student std = new Student(25);
      std.display();
   }
}

Output

Value of age: 25