Accessing an array from a class and passing to another class through main()

[coderz]

Hey guys, I am having some issues putting my head around passing an array and accessing it as function argument.

More specificaly:

I have a class called Pizza

[code]
class Pizza
{
//then I have a private array
String []PizzaSize;

//I have allocated memory for the array in my constructor
Pizza()
{
PizzaSize = new String[3];
}

//In my accessor I have set 3 values for the array
public void getSize()
{
PizzaSize[0] = "Small";
PizzaSize[1] = "Medium";
PizzaSize[2] = "Large";
}

}

Then I have another class:
public class CustomerOrder
{
//with a function called placeOrder
public String placeOrder()
{
}
}

My question: what parameters should I provide to placeOrder function, so that I can pass user's choice (i.e. 0 for small, 1 for Medium....) and then call this function from the main so that I get the corressponding value as output.

Thank you.

[wsaryada]

The natural choice is to pass an integer as the parameter for the placeOrder() method. But there is no restriction to use a string for instance as the parameter type. You, as the programmer, are the one that should know better which one is the most suitable for your program. Using an integer you can use it directly to access the index of the pizza size array that you have defined before.

public String placeOrder(int size) {
    ...
}

[coderz]

Hey guys, I am having some issues putting my head around passing an array and accessing it as function argument.

More specificaly:

I have a class called Pizza

[code]
class Pizza
{
//then I have a private array
String []PizzaSize;

//I have allocated memory for the array in my constructor
Pizza()
{
PizzaSize = new String[3];
}

//In my accessor I have set 3 values for the array
public void getSize()
{
PizzaSize[0] = "Small";
PizzaSize[1] = "Medium";
PizzaSize[2] = "Large";
}

}

Then I have another class:
public class CustomerOrder
{
//with a function called placeOrder
public String placeOrder()
{
}
}

My question: what parameters should I provide to placeOrder function, so that I can pass user's choice (i.e. 0 for small, 1 for Medium....) and then call this function from the main so that I get the corressponding value as output.

Thank you.

Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I know I can pass an integer, but how do I pass the PizzaSize array? I mean if I don't pass the PizzaSize[] to the placeOrder function when I try printing it in the function, it does not recognize it.

But when I call the function from main the PizzaSize[] is not recognized?

Thank you

s

[aizen92]

I think you should declare PizzaSize[] as public, and you can use <your pizza instance>.PizzaSize[] as you please, or you can make PizzaSize[] as static and call it Pizza.PizzaSize[] if its the same for every pizza, which means it doesn't change from one pizza instance to another.
Hope this helped :)

[JosAH]

I think you should declare PizzaSize[] as public, and you can use <your pizza instance>.PizzaSize[] as you please, or you can make PizzaSize[] as static and call it Pizza.PizzaSize[] if its the same for every pizza, which means it doesn't change from one pizza instance to another.
Hope this helped :)

And then someone comes around and does this:

for (int i= 0; i < Pizza.PizzaSize.length; i++)
   Pizza.PizzaSize[i]= "huge";

Better make that size thing an immutable list and pass that one around.

kind regards,

Jos

[aizen92]

And then someone comes around and does this:

for (int i= 0; i < Pizza.PizzaSize.length; i++)
   Pizza.PizzaSize[i]= "huge";

Better make that size thing an immutable list and pass that one around.

kind regards,

Jos

what if PizzaStore[] was declared and initialized globally so it can be defined as final too?

[JosAH]

what if PizzaStore[] was declared and initialized globally so it can be defined as final too?

Try it, you can still change the elements in a final array; what you can't do if the array were final is this:

Pizza.PizzaSize= new String[] { "tiny", "too small", "just crumbs" };

kind regards,

Jos

[aizen92]

Ohh okay