Call variables from one class to another

[mneskovic]

Hello!

I have made one Java library named Helper containing jar file with reusable classes. In it I have made one class (it does passing parameters using POST method to a php file). I am planning to call it every time when I do passing parameters. It has one method which has to use variables from my applet.

My problem now is with variables. How to recognize variables declared in my applet and to use them in that class and in it's method?

I would be grateful for any help.

[dinosoep]

I don't speak english that much but normally I do understand the post, in this case I didn't understand it at all.
so you made a class to pass parameters to a php script, when do you want to use it?
can you please write some pseudo code what you want to do?
what is exactly the problem because everything sounds kinda confusing

[mneskovic]

I pass parameters to a php file which then does recording of that parameters to database.

I was confused about passing variable values to class which does that, but I found a solution: I made variables in my class and declared them as "public static". Then I initialized them in applet by calling classname.variablename=value.

I hope that it is a good solution...?

[Tolls]

Not good.
Pass the values into the method as parameters.

Using public statics that can be changed from anywhere in the system is a Bad Thing.

[mneskovic]

Can you, please, give me an example for that?

It would help me a lot.

[Tolls]

Tutorial on Methods.

[mneskovic]

I have been reading this... Can you give me some simple example for my problem? It would help me more.

[Tolls]

That tutorial page has as good a set of examples as I can give...short of actually writing the answer to your problem, which I can't do since I don't know your problem.

[mneskovic]

Here is how I have just done:

I have one class PassParameters which has variable url and passToFile() method. In applet's class I made an object like this

    PassParameters p = new PassParameters();

and called variable and method like this:

p.url = new URL("http://localhost/subtest.php");
                   p.passToFile();

I just need you to tell me is it ok?

[Tolls]

I have no idea what it is you are doing, but I will say this:

p.url = new URL("http://localhost/subtest.php");

breaks OO encapsulation. You shouldn't assign directly to an objects attributes. There should generally be a setter for that. Or at least pass it into the constructor. But those decisions all depend on what it is you are doing.

[mneskovic]

I am trying to pass this url address from my applet to class PassParameters to use it.

How to assign this "http://localhost/subtest.php" to url variable?

If I write

p.url = "http://localhost/subtest.php";

I got error that it found java.lang.String but it was looking for java.net.URL.

[Tolls]

Give PassParameters a setURL(String url) method, which takes a String and turns that into a useful URL.

You clearly know how to create a URL since you did it earlier, so that is what that method would do.

[mneskovic]

I did like this:

        public static URL setURL (String url){
            try {
            adresa = new URL(url);
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(PassParameters.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
        return adresa;
        }

and called method from applet's class. Hope it is ok now.

[Tolls]

That wasn't what I was expecting.
Do you understand what I mean by an attribute?
"url" is (presumably) an attribute of a PassParameters object, ie:

public class PassParameters {
    private URL url;
// Rest of class goes here.
}

and you use a setUrl() method to set it...which won't be a static method since this is not a static thing.

[crikey]

If you want to call variables from on class to another, just use reflection.
import java.lang.reflect.*;

[JosAH]

If you want to call variables from on class to another, just use reflection.
import java.lang.reflect.*;

Yikes, what's wrong with passing object A to an object B if a B wants to know something from an object A?

kind regards,

Jos

[Fubarable]

If you want to call variables from on class to another, just use reflection.
import java.lang.reflect.*;

I agree with Jos, this is very bad advice indeed. Reflection should be used very sparingly and only with great fore-thought, and this is certainly not the place to be using it.

[Tolls]

Some people seem to see reflection as the answer to everything...must be a vanity thing.
;)