help with java code - new to java

[javamann]

Hi All

I am creating a class called Book which contains getters and setters for book attributes.

class Book {
private String title;
private String ISBN;

//etc
I have a constructor used as the setter as follows:

public Book (String myTitle, String myISBN, String ....){  
this.title = myTitle;
this.ISBN =  myISBN;
}

within the class i created getters as follows:

public String getTitle(){
              return title;
       }//end method getTitle
      
public String getISBN(){
              return ISBN;
}

now when I create new objects in my other class, I do

Book Book1 = new Book {"title123","8888",etc}

All this is working well so far.

now I know i can get each attribute of the book by Book1.getTitle() but how do I get ALL the attributes of each book in one so that i can refer to Book1 as an object rather than referring to each attribute of Book1.

I need this to store all my books in an ArrayList, print them, sort them in different orders etc.

thanks

[kkji]

Please post full code and your current output.

[sunde887]

One nitpick and then some help: When naming variables use camel case (first letter first word lowercase, first letter of 2nd+ words capitalized), so book1, not Book1. Classes have the first letter of each word capitalized.

If you want to do things with the variable, you would use the getters, however; if you simply want to neatly print a list of books, look into overriding the toString method.

@Override public String toString(){
  //do stuff here
  return someString;
}