I have this condition (property rent system, rent is counted per night)
Owner has one or more property. Property has description, price, and isOccupied attribute.
The property can be: hotel (with 3 room types), flat/apartment, and house for homestay.
Through a registry function, a customer can order one or more property available at certain date.
Here are the pre-defined conditions for registry function:
There are 2 registered owners and customers in the system.
Owner 1 has 10 hotel rooms (standard type) for US$30 per night and 3 hotel rooms (suite type) for US$60 per night.
Owner 2 has 3 apartments for US$70 per night and 5 homestay house for US$20 per night.
Customers can rent one or more owner's property for a certain date.
To model the property, I use inheritance concept. For now, it looks something like this.
Property.java
public class Property {
private String description;
private int propertyPrice;
private String ownerName; // should it be here? or should it be made in another class?
private boolean isOccupied;
public String getDescription() {
return description;
}
public void setDescription(String description) {
this.description = description;
}
public int getPropertyPrice() {
return propertyPrice;
}
public void setPropertyPrice(int propertyPrice) {
this.propertyPrice = propertyPrice;
}
}
Hotel.java
public class Hotel extends Property {
private String[] roomType;
private int[] roomCount;
public Hotel(){
this.roomType = new String[]{"Standard", "Deluxe", "Suite"};
this.roomCount = new int[]{0, 0, 0};
}
public String[] getRoomType() {
return roomType;
}
public void setRoomType(String[] roomType) {
this.roomType = roomType;
}
public int[] getRoomCount() {
return roomCount;
}
public void setRoomCount(int[] roomCount) {
this.roomCount = roomCount;
}
}
Apartment.java
public class Apartment extends Property {
private int roomCount;
public int getRoomCount() {
return roomCount;
}
public void setRoomCount(int roomCount) {
this.roomCount = roomCount;
}
}
Homestay.java
public class HomestayRoom extends Property {
private String parentName;
public String getParentName() {
return parentName;
}
public void setParentName(String parentName) {
this.parentName = parentName;
}
}
What makes me confused is, how can I define the pre-defined conditions for registry to model owner-property relation? Should I make the owner at another class? If so, how can I relate the properties and its owner?
Most of what you have done is correct, but you could also have a property type enum
public enum PropertyType{
HOTEL,APARTMENT,HOMESTAY
}
Now you're super class would be
public class Property {
private String description;
private int propertyPrice;
private String ownerName;
private boolean isOccupied;
private PropertyType pt;
....
}
A constructor for hotel would be
public Hotel(){
this.roomType = new String[]{"Standard", "Deluxe", "Suite"};
this.roomCount = new int[]{0, 0, 0};
super(PropertyType.HOTEL);
}
Similarly you could have constructors for Homestay and Apartment, with the extra line of super(PropertyType.HOMESTAY) and super(PropertyType.APARTMENT) respectively.
(I'm a beginner so this may sound obvious/lack information.) I have an ArrayList of attributes for different pets including attributes such as their given-name, common-name, the price of the animal, sex, date bought and date sold. this information is generated from a separate class that adds an array of information to an array of arrays of the already existing list of animals. Essentially, I want to send the array to another class (called Pets) so it can then be added to the array of arrays. I understand this may sound confusing but this is the only way I can word it, I can clarify anything if needed. Any help would be great as I'm really stuck and can't work out how to send it. This is the code that generates my values in the array (using text-boxes to input the information).
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
ArrayList<String> NewanimalArr = new ArrayList<>();
String givenName = txtGivenname.getText();
String commonName = txtCommonName.getText();
String priceOf = txtPrice_1.getText();
String sexOf = txtSex.getText();
String colourOf = txtMaincolour.getText();
String dateOfA = txtArrivaldate.getText();
String dateSold = txtSellingdate.getText();
NewanimalArr.add(givenName);
NewanimalArr.add(commonName);
NewanimalArr.add(priceOf);
NewanimalArr.add(sexOf);
NewanimalArr.add(colourOf);
NewanimalArr.add(dateOfA);
NewanimalArr.add(dateSold);
System.out.println(NewanimalArr);
}
});
this will then print information generated that is entered for example:
[alex, Dog, 40.50, Male, Brown, 14/04/2015, 14/12/2016]
how do I then send this data to another class
Option one Constructor Injection:
public class Foo {
List<String> actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
List<String> newanimalArr = new ArrayList<>();
.....
return newanimalArr
}
...
public class Pets {
private final List<String> array;
public Pets(final List<String> array) {
this.array = array;
}
void bar() {
System.out.println(this.array);
}
}
....
public static void main(String[] args) {
Foo foo = new Foo();
Pets pets = new Pets(foo.actionPerformed( new ActionEvent() ) );
pets.bar();
}
Option two Getter-Setter Injection:
public class Foo {
private final List<String> newanimalArr;
public Foo() {
this.newanimalArr = new ArrayList<>();
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
.....
}
public List<String> getNewanimalArr() {
return new ArrayList<String>(newanimalArr);
}
}
...
public class Pets {
private List<String> array;
public Pets() {
this.array = Collections.<String>emptyList();
}
public void setArray(final List<String> array) {
this.array = array;
}
public void bar() {
System.out.println(this.array);
}
}
....
public static void main(String[] args) {
Foo foo = new Foo();
foo.actionPerformed( new ActionEvent() );
Pets pets = new Pets();
bar.setArray( foo.getNewanimalArr() );
pets.bar();
}
See also Dependency Injection Patterns
Create a class definition of Pet, using instance variables for the fields. In Java it is custom to create a setXyz and a getXyz for each xyz field. You can also create a constructor in which you pass all the values and assign them to the fields, this minimizes the risk of fields not being filled in.
The initial ArrayList you are creating doesn't add that much use, it is easier to create the Pet instances directly:
List<Pet> newArrivals = new ArrayList<>();
// get data from view fields and if necessary transform them to other objects such as:
LocalDate arrivedOn = LocalDate.parse(txtArrivaldate.getText(), DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.FormatStyle);
// create and add a new Pet object to the list
newArrivals.add(new Pet(.....));
public class Pet {
public enum Gender {
FEMALE, MALE
}
private String givenName;
private String commonName;
private double price;
private Gender gender;
private String color;
private LocalDate arrivedOn;
private LocalDate soldOn;
public Pet() {
}
public Pet(String givenName, String commonName, double price, Gender gender, String color, LocalDate arrivedOn,
LocalDate soldOn) {
super();
this.givenName = givenName;
this.commonName = commonName;
this.price = price;
this.gender = gender;
this.color = color;
this.arrivedOn = arrivedOn;
this.soldOn = soldOn;
}
public String getGivenName() {
return givenName;
}
public void setGivenName(String givenName) {
this.givenName = givenName;
}
public String getCommonName() {
return commonName;
}
public void setCommonName(String commonName) {
this.commonName = commonName;
}
public double getPrice() {
return price;
}
public void setPrice(double price) {
this.price = price;
}
public Gender getGender() {
return gender;
}
public void setGender(Gender gender) {
this.gender = gender;
}
public String getColor() {
return color;
}
public void setColor(String color) {
this.color = color;
}
public LocalDate getArrivedOn() {
return arrivedOn;
}
public void setArrivedOn(LocalDate arrivedOn) {
this.arrivedOn = arrivedOn;
}
public LocalDate getSoldOn() {
return soldOn;
}
public void setSoldOn(LocalDate soldOn) {
this.soldOn = soldOn;
}
}
I've got the following question. I got a little application which saves payments, dates and persons inside a database. Now I got the following POJO class:
public class Payment implements Serializable {
private int id;
private double payment;
private Date datum;
private String usage;
private String category;
private int importance;
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public double getPayment() {
return payment;
}
public void setPayment(double payment) {
this.payment = payment;
}
public Date getDatum() {
return datum;
}
public void setDatum(Date datum) {
this.datum = datum;
}
public String getUsage() {
return usage;
}
public void setUsage(String usage) {
this.usage = usage;
}
public String getCategory() {
return category;
}
public void setCategory(String category) {
this.category = category;
}
public int getImportance() {
return importance;
}
public void setImportance(int importance) {
this.importance = importance;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("ID: ");
sb.append(id);
sb.append("\nPAYMENT: ");
sb.append(payment);
sb.append("\nDATE: ");
sb.append(datum);
sb.append("\nUSAGE: ");
sb.append(usage);
sb.append("\nCATEGORY: ");
sb.append(category);
sb.append("\nIMPORTANCE: ");
sb.append(importance);
return sb.toString();
}
}
So, I got also a class for my dates and persons. The question I've got is the following: Should I create for every Table in my database(in Java the Payment.class , Date.class and Person.class) a own transaction/access class which supports an .saveOrUpdate(), .list() or .delete() function?So maybe I got than a PaymentRansaction.class or an PersonTransaction.class.
Thanks for every help :)
It depends.
Do you have one table with transactions, then one model should be sufficient.
Create methods to create the transactions for you depending on Payment or Person.
BUT
If you have more then 1 table go for multiple classess, each table it's own class.
I'm just working through a few things as practice for an exam I have coming up, but one thing I cannot get my head round, is using a variable that belongs to one class, in a different class.
I have a Course class and a Student class. Class course stores all the different courses and what I simply want to be able to do is use the name of the course, in class Student.
Here is my Course class:
public class Course extends Student
{
// instance variables - replace the example below with your own
private Award courseAward;
private String courseCode;
public String courseTitle;
private String courseLeader;
private int courseDuration;
private boolean courseSandwich;
/**
* Constructor for objects of class Course
*/
public Course(String code, String title, Award award, String leader, int duration, boolean sandwich)
{
courseCode = code;
courseTitle = title;
courseAward = award;
courseLeader = leader;
courseDuration = duration;
courseSandwich = sandwich;
}
}
And here is Student:
public class Student
{
// instance variables - replace the example below with your own
private int studentNumber;
private String studentName;
private int studentPhone;
private String studentCourse;
/**
* Constructor for objects of class Student
*/
public Student(int number, String name, int phone)
{
studentNumber = number;
studentName = name;
studentPhone = phone;
studentCourse = courseTitle;
}
}
Am I correct in using 'extends' within Course? Or is this unnecessary?
In my constructor for Student, I am trying to assign 'courseTitle' from class Course, to the variable 'studentCourse'. But I simply cannot figure how to do this!
Thank you in advance for your help, I look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks!
Am I correct in using 'extends' within Course? Or is this unnecessary?
Unfortunately not, if you want to know whether your inheritance is correct or not, replace extends with is-a. A course is a student? The answer is no. Which means your Course should not extend Student
A student can attend a Course, hence the Student class can have a member variable of type Course. You can define a list of courses if your model specifies that (a student can attend several courses).
Here is a sample code:
public class Student{
//....
private Course course;
//...
public void attendCourse(Course course){
this.course = course;
}
public Course getCourse(){
return course;
}
}
Now, you can have the following:
Student bob = new Student(...);
Course course = new Course(...);
bob.attendCourse(course);
I assume a Course is not a Student, so inheritance between those classes is probably a bad idea.
You have to declare them public.
A better way is the keep them private, and code a public getter for that variable. for example:
public Award getCourseAward(){
return this.courseAward;
}
Course should not extend Student. If you want to access the courseTitle field of Course, you need to pass a reference to a Course object to the Student and then do course.CourseTitle.
You cannot access private attributes of a class from another, this is one of the main principles of OOP: encapsulation. You have to provide access method to those attribute, you want to publish outside the class. The common approach is setter/getters - getters only, if you want to have your class immutable. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutator_method#Java_example
It does not make sense to arbitrarily extend classes. Student is not a Course or vice versa, so you cannot extend them like that.
What you need to do is:
create a Course first:
Course aCourse = new Course(..);
create a Student:
Student aStudent = new Student(..);
assign the Course to the Student:
aStudent.setCourse(aCourse.title);
Extending Student with Couse because they are not of the same kind. Extending one class with another happens when specializing a more general (in a sense) one.
The solution would be to pass courseTitle as an argument of the Student constructor
There should be 3 separate objects here, a Course, a Student, and an Enrollment. An enrollment connects a Student to a Course, a Course has many Students, and a Student can enroll in many courses. None of them should extend each other.
First,
You are extending Student class in Course class, which means, student class gets all the coruse class properties. So, the student class does not have the courseTitle property.
Second, yes, it is unnesessary - you need to do the following:
public class Course
{
private Award courseAward;
private String courseCode;
public String courseTitle;
private String courseLeader;
private int courseDuration;
private boolean courseSandwich;
public Course(String code, String title, Award award, String leader, int duration, boolean sandwich)
{
courseCode = code;
courseTitle = title;
courseAward = award;
courseLeader = leader;
courseDuration = duration;
courseSandwich = sandwich;
}
}
public class Student
{
private int studentNumber;
private String studentName;
private int studentPhone;
// This is where you keep the course object associated to student
public Course studentCourse;
public Student(int number, String name, int phone, Course course)
{
studentNumber = number;
studentName = name;
studentPhone = phone;
studentCourse = course;
}
}
Example usage would be something like this:
Course course = new Course("ASD", "TITLE", null, "ME", 50, true);
Student student = new Student(1, "JOHN", "5551234", course);
And then, get the course information you need from student via, i.e.:
student.studentCourse.courseTitle;
Since now student.studentCourse will be a course object with all of its properties.
Cheers,
Maybe you do not need to add the course name to student. What I would do is add Students to some datastructure in Course. This is cleaner and reduces the coupling between Course and Student. This would also allow you to have Students being in more than one course. For example:
public class Course extends Student{
private Award courseAward;
private String courseCode;
public String courseTitle;
private Student courseLeader;//change to a student Object
private int courseDuration;
private boolean courseSandwich;
private Set<Student> students;//have course hold a collection of students
/**
* Constructor for objects of class Course
*/
public Course(String code, String title, Award award, Student leader, int duration, boolean sandwich){
courseCode = code;
courseTitle = title;
courseAward = award;
courseLeader = leader;
courseDuration = duration;
courseSandwich = sandwich;
this.students=new HashSet<Student>();
}
public boolean addStudent(Student student){
return students.add(student);
}
public Set<Student> getStudents(){
return students;
}
}
As mentioned, stay away from the "extends" for this. In general, you shouldn't use it unless the "is-a" relationship makes sense.
You should probably provide getters for the methods on the Course class:
public class Course {
...
public String getTitle() {
return title;
}
}
And then if the Student class needs that, it would somehow get a hold of the course (which is up to you in your design), and call the getter:
public class Student {
private Set<Course> courses = new HashSet<Course>();
public void attendCourse(Course course) {
courses.add(course);
}
public void printCourses(PrintStream stream) {
for (Course course : courses) {
stream.println(course.getTitle());
}
}
}
Here below find out the solution of your problem and if you want to check below code on your machine then create a file named Test.java and paste the below codes:
package com;
class Course
{
private Award courseAward;
private String courseCode;
public String courseTitle;
private String courseLeader;
private int courseDuration;
private boolean courseSandwich;
public Course(String code, String title, Award award, String leader, int duration, boolean sandwich)
{
courseAward = award;
courseCode = code;
courseTitle = title;
courseLeader = leader;
courseDuration = duration;
courseSandwich = sandwich;
}
public Award getCourseAward() {
return courseAward;
}
public void setCourseAward(Award courseAward) {
this.courseAward = courseAward;
}
public String getCourseCode() {
return courseCode;
}
public void setCourseCode(String courseCode) {
this.courseCode = courseCode;
}
public String getCourseTitle() {
return courseTitle;
}
public void setCourseTitle(String courseTitle) {
this.courseTitle = courseTitle;
}
public String getCourseLeader() {
return courseLeader;
}
public void setCourseLeader(String courseLeader) {
this.courseLeader = courseLeader;
}
public int getCourseDuration() {
return courseDuration;
}
public void setCourseDuration(int courseDuration) {
this.courseDuration = courseDuration;
}
public boolean isCourseSandwich() {
return courseSandwich;
}
public void setCourseSandwich(boolean courseSandwich) {
this.courseSandwich = courseSandwich;
}
}
class Student
{
private int studentNumber;
private String studentName;
private int studentPhone;
private Course studentCourse;
/**
* Constructor for objects of class Student
*/
public Student(int number, String name, int phone, Course course)
{
studentNumber = number;
studentName = name;
studentPhone = phone;
studentCourse = course;
}
public int getStudentNumber() {
return studentNumber;
}
public void setStudentNumber(int studentNumber) {
this.studentNumber = studentNumber;
}
public String getStudentName() {
return studentName;
}
public void setStudentName(String studentName) {
this.studentName = studentName;
}
public int getStudentPhone() {
return studentPhone;
}
public void setStudentPhone(int studentPhone) {
this.studentPhone = studentPhone;
}
public Course getStudentCourse() {
return studentCourse;
}
public void setStudentCourse(Course studentCourse) {
this.studentCourse = studentCourse;
}
}
class Award{
private long awardId;
private String awardName;
Award(long awardId, String awardName){
this.awardId = awardId;
this.awardName = awardName;
}
public long getAwardId() {
return awardId;
}
public void setAwardId(long awardId) {
this.awardId = awardId;
}
public String getAwardName() {
return awardName;
}
public void setAwardName(String awardName) {
this.awardName = awardName;
}
}
public class Test{
public static void main(String ar[]){
// use your all classes here
}
}
This is not supposed to be a client class. I'm just making a class for others to use. I'm using this for a Highschool. For example i have classes for the address, teacher, students, principal, roomnumber, etc..But its not compiling for some odd reason. I believe its because I'm not declaring a field but not sure.
import java.io.*;
public class HighSchool {
// Constructors
public HighSchool() { }
public HighSchool(String title, String teacher, int roomNumber, String period, String[] students, String address, String subjects ) {
this.title = title;
this.teacher = teacher;
this.roomNumber = roomNumber;
this.period = period;
this.String[] students = students;
this.String address =a ddress;
this.String subjects = subjects;
}
public class Classcourse (String title, String teacher, int roomNumber, String period, String[] students, String address, String subjects
private String period;) {
public String gettitle() {
return title;
}
public void settitle(String title) {
this.title = title;
}
public String getteacher() {
return teacher;
}
public void setteacher(String teacher) {
this.teacher = teacher;
}
public int getroomNumber() {
return roomNumber;
}
public void setroomNumber (int roomNumber) {
this.roomNumber = roomNumber;
}
public String getperiod() {
return getperiod();
}
public void setperiod (String period) {
this.period = period;
}
public String[] getstudents () {
return students[];
}
public void setstudents[] (String[] students
private String address;) {
this.students = students;
}
public String getaddress() {
return address;
}
public void setaddress (String address) {
this.address = address;
}
public String getsubjects() {
return subjects;
}
public void setsubjects (String subjects) {
this.subjects = subjects;
}
}
// modifier method
public void addstudents(String students) {
String[] newstudents = new String[students.length + 1];
for (int i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
newstudents[i] = students[i];
}
newstudents[students.length] = student;
students = newstudents;
}
public boolean isInClass(String students) {
for (int i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
if (students[i].equals(students)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
// static creator method
public static HighSchool readFromInput() throws IOException {
BufferedReader kb = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.print("Enter a HighSchool title: ");
HighSchool newHighSchool = new HighSchool(kb.readLine());
String students = null;
do {
System.out.print("Enter a student, or press Enter to finish: ");
students = kb.readLine();
if (students != null){
newHighSchool.addstudents(students);
}
} while (students != null);
return newHighSchool;
}
// Variables (Fields)
private String title;
private String[] students;
}
In addition, you wrote something that doesn't make sense from the point of view of Java Compiler:
private String period;) {
- probably remove ")".
The second thing:
Take a look on the declaration of class Classcourse.
It rather sounds wrong, although it can be an issue of this site's editor or something...
An "overall" hint - java has a very "intelligent" compiler in the most of the cases it can say what's wrong exactly with your code, so, assuming you're a newbie in Java, try to understand what compiler says to you.
Good luck!
Some things I noticed about the code:
public String getperiod() {
return getperiod();
}
This code will cause a endless loop when you call this function.
private String address;) {
this.students = students;
}
The compiler will give an error about the ";)". Change it to "()" to fix this.
Furthermore, you should really tell us more about the errors it's giving you. We can't help you if you don't give us the compiler errors.