Basically I am working on a project where certain class attributes and names of classes are stored in a text file. The goal here is to create a list of the objects of a certain data type (in this case Car) listed in the text file (of which I have already done), and then assign these to the data types within the text file. Below is an example of a text file that I would work with:
Car: 2
4 1 1 Red 3 80.5 20 60 2 aadawd
1 3 2 Blue 3 80 30 20 1 aaxzd
Bike: 3
2 1
2 2
2 3
Basically, ‘Car: 2’ indicates that we have 2 cars. The two lines below it indicate the attributes of the respective cars. To not waste time on unnecessary information I’ll just list the data types of the lines below Car: <int, int, int, String, int, double, double, double, int, char[]>
Getters/setters are already established for the Car classes.
So far, I converted the file into an ArrayList called list, where each line of the file represents is an element of the array. This allowed me to create an ArrayList of type Car quite easily. All I need now is to set the attributes of the Car. Any thoughts?
for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
if (list.get(i).contains("Red")) {
carList.add(new RedCar());
} else if (list.get(i).contains("Blue")) {
carList.add(new BlueCar());
} else if (list.get(i).contains("Yellow")) {
carList.add(new YellowCar());
}
}
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Answer
As far as I can see, you have everything you need. To fill your carlist with properties you have to create an object and put it on a variable before pushing it to a list.
...
if (list.get(i).contains("Red")) {
//hopefully all cars inherts from Car
Car c = new RedCar();
final String[] attributes = list.get(i).split(" ");
c.setFirstAttr(attributes[0]);
c.setSecondAttr(attributes[1]);
//and so on
carList.add(c);
}
It could be a better way to use the color of the car as an attribute. Because from this perspective it looks like that the cars are all the same, except their color.
//you dont have to decide which type if car you create
for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
//hopefully all cars inherts from Car
Car c = new Car();
final String[] attributes = list.get(i).split(" ");
c.setFirstAttr(attributes[0]);
//and so on
c.setColor(attributes[3]);
carList.add(c);
}