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I have the following code:

public class DTTMCatalog
{ //open class DTTMCatalog
private catalogItems items[]; //array for items stored in the DTTM catalog
public DTTMCatalog()
{
items = new catalogItems[15];
items[0]= new catalogItems("song", "Hannah Jane");
items[1]= new catalogItems("song", "Hard Day's Night");
items[2]= new catalogItems("song", "Crazy");
}

public void getCatalog()
{
System.out.print ("Here are the items in the DTTM Catalog: \n");
System.out.printf("%s%8s%8s\n","Index", "Type", "Title");
for(int counter = 0; counter < 3; counter++)
System.out.printf("%15s%28s\n", counter, items[counter]);
}
}

public class catalogItems
{
private String itemType;
private String title;

public catalogItems(String theItemType, String theTitle)
{
itemType = theItemType;
title = theTitle;
}

}

The problem is that my print output looks like this:

1 catalogItems@117a8bd

How do I get it to print the contents of the array rather than the hashcode?

Thanks
Patty
 
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The hashcode you are seeing is the hashcode for each catalogItems object in each of the arrays. Instead, you should think about getting a handle to each of these objects inside your for loop, and doing a couple of System.outPrintln statements, calling the getters on them (once you write them of course ;-) ) to print the details you require. FYI, for your own sanity in debugging, class names should start with a capital letter, to distinguish them from method names.
[ November 20, 2005: Message edited by: Jody Brown ]
 
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Or give each of your items a proper toString() method.
 
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First of all, you implement a toString() method in your class catalogItems.
Here's a trick to get a nicely printed array:

[ November 21, 2005: Message edited by: Jesper de Jong ]
 
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Handy class, that java.util.Arrays. And if you are using the current version of
Java, you can even shorten that by one step:
 
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Originally posted by Jesper de Jong:
First of all, you implement a toString() method in your class catalogItems.
Here's a trick to get a nicely printed array:


[ November 21, 2005: Message edited by: Jesper de Jong ]



This is not performance-friendly, you can use org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils.toString().


http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang/ArrayUtils.html
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