Method to return values

[puchatek]

Hello. I wrote a method to return the values of the student name and the student age. How can I write a single method to return the values of a String and a int.

Thanks

public class School
{

private String StudentName;
private int StudentAge;

public void setStudentName(String Name)
{
    StudentName = Name;
}
public String getStudentName()
{
    return StudentName;
}
public void setStudentAge(int Age)
{
    StudentAge = Age;
}
public int getStudentAge()
{
    return StudentAge;
}
}

[JosAH]

Hello. I wrote a method to return the values of the student name and the student age. How can I write a single method to return the values of a String and a int.

Methods can only return one value but they can return a value of any type so this would be a valid return type:

class ReturnType {
   public int ival;
   public String sval;
}

You can enhance this little class ad lib but I hope you get the idea.

kind regards,

Jos

[puchatek]

Hello. I wrote a method to return the values of the student name and the student age. How can I write a single method to return the values of a String and a int.

Thanks

public class School
{

private String StudentName;
private int StudentAge;

public void setStudentName(String Name)
{
    StudentName = Name;
}
public String getStudentName()
{
    return StudentName;
}
public void setStudentAge(int Age)
{
    StudentAge = Age;
}
public int getStudentAge()
{
    return StudentAge;
}
}

Methods can only return one value but they can return a value of any type so this would be a valid return type:

class ReturnType {
   public int ival;
   public String sval;
}

You can enhance this little class ad lib but I hope you get the idea.

kind regards,

Jos

Would it be possible to do it in the same class?

Thanks

[JosAH]

Would it be possible to do it in the same class?

Thanks

Sure, you can make the ReturnValue class a nested class (the Student class will be the top level class) and make it public so the entire world can work with it:

public class Student {
   public static class ReturnValue {
      int ival;
      String sval;
   }
   // methods that return a ReturnValue go here ...
}
...
// somewhere else in your code:
Student s= new Student();
Student.ReturnValue retval= s.someMethod();
// do something with retval.ival or retval.sval ...

kind regards,

Jos

[Tolls]

In this case, though, it would be a bit pointless since those two values are the same two values held in School (shouldn't that be Student?).