Do inherited methods use their instance variables or do they use the ones in the method that inherits them?
For example, Class B extends Class A. Class A and B both have the instance variable "potato". A client program tries to use method "cut" using an object of Class B, but class B has no cut method. So, class B uses the "cut" method inherited from class A. What I want to know is will that cut class A's potato or class B's?
I have the following 2 classes:
class Address {
private int a;
public void set_a(int a) {
this.a = a;
}
}
class Person {
private Address address;
}
How do i access the method set_a() (through the "address" in Person) from another class which contains main() ?
so, i was reading my java book and learning about objects and methods and it starts talking about Encapsulation and mentions that it's good practice to set instance variables as private and instead of accessing the instance variables directly, we should create a set method and get method to get and set the stuff we want to pass to the class containing the object...
for example, in this class, we're passing the integer 70 for object dog one and integer 8 for object dog two for the dog class... and these these 2 integers are sent to the setsize method so we're not accessing instance variable size directly.
i dont quite get it though....if we the programmer are the one deciding what size the integer is for the dog, and the setsize method takes the one.setSize(70) or (8) and puts them in setsize(int s) as s... but only to copy that integer stored in s back to private int size.... why do we even need to bother with making these two extra methods such as setSize, getSize?
in the book it says that... well what if the code gets into the wrong hand and someone writes something like one.setSize(0) then you would get a dog with size 0 which is essentially illogical. but then again, i'm the programmer, and i am the person who writes the code and passing the right integer.The reason for public and private... that part i understand... i can see why if a variable's data can get changed amidst the code during calculations and you dont want it to directly change the original variable and have it mess up the code, but this code from the book just a bad example of demonstrating the reason? since we manually pass the information ourselves and passing it to method setSize... and all setSize does is stores it in another integer, only to copy it right away to size (which is the original private variable we were tryign to protect?
Any simple code to demonstrate how the code might end up changing an instance variable and why we would want to protect it by using private?
class GoodDog {
private int size;
public int getSize() {
return size;
}
public void setSize(int s) {
size = s;
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I thought static methods could never use instance variables, because they wouldn't know which instance to look at.
From Head First Java, p. 284: "A static method is not associated with a particular instance - only the class - so it cannot access any instance variable values of its class. It wouldn't know which instance's values to use."
Now I was answering some mock exam questions from Cameron McKenzie's SCJA book, and I don't understand one of the options. On page 205, the last question has an option that says: "Instance variables ... are not visible in static methods, unless passed in as arguments." This option is supposed to be correct. Now... how does that work?
So the first thing I would like to ask about is overriding inherited methods. I am asked to override methods in one of my assignments and I am not really sure how to go about doing it.
View Replies View RelatedSo far in my assignment I have successfully opened a text file. However I am required to do more:
1) As each line of text (containing names and ages) is read a new Runner object is created with its instance variables set thus: ! (Runner class already created )!
- name : set directly set from the value in the file
- agaGroup : can be worked out from the given ages:
< 18 should be 'junior'
> 55 should be 'senior'
the rest should be 'standard'
2) the instance of Runner should be added to the list referenced by the instance variable runners.
I have used if statements to create the junior list, however I do not see the full list of names and ages in the variable runners as I am requested to.
I am sure there is a for loop involved somewhere but I do not know how to:
a) use the for loop in my method
add a new Runner object with the variable mentioned.
I include the code I have done so far as a file - p.s I use Bluej.
public class MarathonAdmin
{
// instance variables
private String runners;
private String age;
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What is the correct way of describing the type of instance variables?
It is obvious in the case of a primitive type
Example: private int number;
The (data)type of number is integer.
What if the instance variable is an object or a wrapper?
example: private Person person;
the (data?)type of person is an object of the type/class Person?
example: private Integer number;
I am having some problem accessing variables from an array instance of a class. Heres what i have done;
In the main class:
Example obj[]= new Example[4];
In the main class constructor:
obj[0] = new Example(0);
obj[1] = new Example(1);
obj[2] = new Example(2);
obj[3] = new Example(3);
In the main update() method:
if(condition)
//update
In the Example class constructor:
private boolean change = false;
In the Example class update() method:
if(x >20)
change= true;
Now, i want to access the variable change from the main class, how do i do it? The 'condition' in the if statement is the condition of wether the change variable ia true or false. How do i access it?
why overridden doesn't apply to variables. However, instance variables are stored inside the object.I ran below program and expected to print "two" but it gets printed "one".
class SupCont {
String s = "one";
}
class Cont extends SupCont {
public static void main(String a[]) {
String s = "two";
SupCont c = new Cont();
System.out.println(c.s);
}
}
I have to create an application that deals with maps.
I first have to create the instance variables for the class.
So very simply if my hashmap is going to consist of football clubs and players. Football clubs being a string value for the key and players being a set of strings for the values. How would I go about creating the instance variable in a class for this?
I can't seem to find anything that specifically deals with instance variables and constructors for maps.
I am suppose to create a rectangle and I have created two classes; Rectangle.java and RectangleTester.Java.
So far my code for the class Rentangle.java is:
package edu.sbcc.hw2;
public class Rectangle {
private int width = 25;
private int height = 25;
public rectangle(int xcoord, int ycoord, int thewidth, int theheight) {
this.width = width;
this.height = height;
}
public int getWidth() {
return width;
So for my assignment I need two instance variables for height and width for which I have, but it says in the assignment I need methods (settings and getters /mutators and accessors that allow manipulation of my instance variables which is a little confusing. Do I put these methods on Rectangle.java or RectangleTester.java.
The same goes for the calculateArea, where am I suppose to put this?
From the tutorial:instance variables can be declared in class level before or after use.But the code below does not compile. Why?
Java Code:
public class MainApp {
i=5;
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
int i;
} mh_sh_highlight_all('java');
Creating a class. Specification are given as:
Create a class called Employee that includes three pieces of information as instance variables:
-Employee ID (string type)
-first name (string type) (default value 'John')
-last name (string type) (default value 'Smith') and
-monthly salary (type double).
-No argument constructor that initializes the three instance variables. The employee id should be generated using the following process:
The employee id should be a combination of first initial, last initial and a number starting from 10001 for the first employee and increasing by one for each employee. e.g. if John Smith is the first employee then its id will be JS10001 and if George Brown is the second employee then its id will be GB10002
-Provide get and set methods for each instance variable. The set method for monthly salary should ensure that its value remains positive - if an attempt is made to assign a negative value, leave the original value.
As web server has multiple threads to serve client requests in Thread Pool & to ensure Thread Safety we should not use any variables or Objects at Instance/Class level.But in case of Session Variable which one is the Best Practice as the Session object is used by all the requests to have the same Session ID.
My Code :
public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(ClientRegistrationServlet.class);
private HttpSession session; /* This is used at Instance Level*/
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
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So in the code below I create an instance of my own triangle class and use one of its methods. The thing is I use one of my triangle classes methods in a method other the main method of my main program so I'm thinking it can't access it?
Any way here's the code for my triangle class
import java.util.Scanner;
public class QudratullahMommandi_Triangle_06 {
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
private double side1;
private double side2;
private double side3;
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and here's the error message
QudratullahMommandi_S_06.java:46: error: cannot find symbol
{ triangle1.outPut();
^
symbol: variable triangle1
location: class QudratullahMommandi_S_06
1 error
Okay, so I have to create a class with instance data and instance methods.
First, BankAccount class. It should contain the following information, stored in instance variables:
First name: The customer's first name.
Last name: The customer's last name
Balance: The amount of money the customer has in the account.
It should have the following methods:
BankAccount(String firstName, String lastName,
double openingBalance)
This constructor creates a new BankAccount
public String firstName()
Returns the customer's first name
public String lastName()
Returns the customer's last name
public double balance()
Returns the customer's account balance
Finally I need to create a driver to test my class. And create several accounts and verify that the first name, last name, and balance methods work properly. This is my code below.. I don't know if I did it right.
public class BankAccount {
String firstName, lastName;
double balance;
public BankAccount(String firstName, String lastName, double balance) {
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I have to make two classes. The first one crates an instance of an array of several integers and prints data (average, greatest, lowest, et cetera) based on the second class, which contains the methods. I'm having a problem with the syntax for the first class required to use the methods.
Here's a shortened version of what I have right now just based on processing the number of integers in the array (because if I can get just one method properly connected, I could figure out everything else).
Driver
import java.util.Arrays;
public class ArrayMethodsDriver
{
//Creates the ArrayMethods object
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int[] a = {7,8,8,3,4,9,8,7};
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When I try to compile this, I currently get the "class expected" error on the count part.
I'm making a java program that can "convert" java to arduino by sending commands over a serial port. I'm using the JSSC library, and using methods to shorten things up a bit.
I've already made the code that starts up the serial port and it does connect. But I've made two different classes for the methods. One for the RXTX and one for the Arduino.
I'm making it so that I can just type:
Java Code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
RXTX.SerialSetup();
Arduino.pinMode(2, 0);
} mh_sh_highlight_all('java');
And it will start the serial port and set pinmode on pin 2 to output.
But when I try it I get this error:
Java Code:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:
serialPort cannot be resolved mh_sh_highlight_all('java');
I don't know if its possible to 'send' a variable to a different method.
i'm trying to modify and use a GUI to set the variables the setter methods. while the code seems valid to me and should work perfectly, i get ArrayIndexOutOfBounds and StringIndexOutOfBounds and respectively lines 111 and 134. i'm am not the original author of this code, all i want is to get it to work fine.
1package de.kugihan.dictionaryformids.dictdconv;
2
3import java.io.FileOutputStream;
4import java.io.IOException;
5import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
6
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i need to change my code in order to stop the member variables from being directly altered and its been suggested that i should use a setter and getter method. Ive read up about these and im still unsure at how they should be implemented into my code for my project.
import ddf.minim.*;
DragShape[] piece =new DragShape[77];
PImage puz16;
PImage frame;
PImage text;
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If I had this code:
<h:dataTable value="#{customer.customerList}" var="c"
styleClass="order-table"
headerClass="order-table-header"
rowClasses="order-table-odd-row,order-table-even-row"
>
And in the server getCustomerList() accessed to database, how many times getCustomerList() would be called from I request the xhtml page?. I have read this would be called several times because of JSF internals and It would be better to store it in a variable and access this variable.
1. Is this true this would be called several times? why?
2. If the previous statement was true, how to avoid it, I mean not call the method from a service?
a. Create an application named ArithmeticMethods whose main() method holds two integer variables. Assign values to the variables. In turn, pass each value to methods named displayNumberPlus10(), displayNumberPlus100(), and displayNumberPlus1000(). Create each method to perform the task its name implies.
b. Modify the ArithmeticMethods class to accept the values of the two integers from a user at the keyboard.
I have extracted relevant parts of code and outputs, this is the only relevant code for this problem. There is a basic class called SalonData, which contains the fields refereed to. Original data rs. is obtained from an SQL extract, that is populating correctly.
public ArrayList<SalonData> salons=new ArrayList<SalonData>();
ArrayList<SalonData> loc2=new ArrayList<SalonData>();
SalonData salon=new SalonData();
salon.CardRecordID = rs.getString("CardRecordID");
salon.SalonName = rs.getString("Name");
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Printed results after this code is run;
Salons
2022XYZ PTY33 Smith Street319603 9773 2000
loc2
2022XYZ PTY33 Smith Street319603 9773 2000
The code was inteded to populate the phone number in arraylist "loc2", but based on the code, the phone number in arraylist "salons" for Location 2 should still be blank. Question is how did the phone number for this customer in arraylist salons, for Location 2, get populated?
I have to create a new custom tag "imageLabeable" as a div contains a GraphicImage and an OutputLabel (primefaces).
Since I want to make it reusable as much as possible, I tried to write, in cc:interface section, all GraphicImage attributes (id, value, binding etc) and some new (GraphicImage is the main component among the two). But after that I have must associate GraphicImage attributes with the attributes created in cc:interface:
<cc:interface componentType="imageLabeable">
<cc:attribute name="value" />
<cc:attribute name="alt" />
<cc:attribute name="width" />
<cc:attribute name="height" />
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As you can see, if I have a lot of attributes I have to write a lot of association. Furthermore, if I see html rendered code with Firebug or similar, I see all of these associations.
Can I inherit these attributes automatically? Or associate it in easier way?
I've Parent and child(extends Parent) class To initialize the constructors, I'm injecting from google.juice#injector. Let me show the code,
Parent.class
public class Parent{
private Animal animal;
@inject
Parent(Animal animal){
this.animal = animal;
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When I do this, ClassCastException is happening. Why is it so? Is there any way to convert instance of parent to child instance.
Does child class gets a copy of the methods and variables of parent class?
public class test1 {
public static void main(String a[]) {
Child c = new Child();
c.print();
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why is the output 1?