Help with classes

[freswood]

I have a verrrry limited knowledge of Java. One of the components of an assessed task I have to complete is to create a method which displays the attributes of all objects of the class.

Here's an example to show you what I mean:
Class = Car
Attributes = model, colour

.... and in a driver class, objects of 'Car' type have been created: car1, car2, car3

How would you go about creating a method in the Car class which displays the model and colour of each object?

[sukatoa]

What have you done so far?

regards,
sukatoa

[CaptainMorgan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by freswood

How would you go about creating a method in the Car class which displays the model and colour of each object?

First, welcome to the Java Forums community!

Please review the FAQ to get yourself acquainted.

Your answer depends on how you want the model and colour displayed... are you simply outputting to the console? If so, call your method on a Car object and have your method simply return the model and colour via an object or have it output it from within the method.

See you around!

[freswood]

^ That's what I did, but I need a method that displays that stuff for all classes (or at least that's what it implies in the wording of the question. So is there a method I can write that does this? Or is the wording misleading and this is not possible?

So I guess what I'm asking is: can you do something like this:

getAllCarDetails()
which prints to screen every car object's colour and model

rather than this

car1.getDetails()
car2.getDetails()...etc

Thanks for your help I really appreciate it

[freswood]

Sorry for the bump

*is getting kinda desperate*

[DonCash]

First you need to setup methods in each class containing the information you want to return. For example, add this to car1, car2, car3:

Code:

public String model(){
		
String model = "BMW";
return model;	
	
}

public String colour(){
		
String colour = "Red";
return colour;	
	
}

To be able to read between classes you need to create objects of each class.

For example add this to your Driver class:

Code:

public static void main(String[] args) {

car1 c1 = new car1();
car2 c2 = new car2();
car3 c3 = new car3();

}

Then you can add System.out.println() to print out the information contained in each classes method:

Code:

class Driver {

public static void main(String[] args) {

car1 c1 = new car1();
car2 c2 = new car2();
car3 c3 = new car3();

System.out.println("Car1 model: " + c1.model);
System.out.println("Car1 colour: " + c1.colour);

System.out.println("Car2 model: " + c2.model);
System.out.println("Car2 colour: " + c2.colour);

System.out.println("Car3 model: " + c3.model);
System.out.println("Car3 colour: " + c3.colour);

 }
}

Output:

Code:

Car1 model: BMW
Car1 colour: Red

etc etc..

This seems to be a very common exercise when learning Java. I remember doing it myself so im sure this is exactly what you need.