Arraylist

[Anne Saizan]

Hello,
I just want to know how to use arraylist in Java.
What I mean is, if I have 2 class(Book, and main class).
How to use the arraylist to construct new book?
Thank you

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

so far what you have done?

[Matthew Brown]

A list of what? ArrayLists contains lists of some object or other. In what way do you want to create a book from a list of other objects?

[Anne Saizan]

Thanks for reply.

public class Book 
{
	//data
	private String titles;
	private String author;
	private int numberOfCopies;
	private boolean availableEbook;
	
	//constructor
	public Book(String titles,String author, int numberOfCopies, boolean availableEbook)
	{
		this.titles = titles; 
		this.author = author;
		this.numberOfCopies = numberOfCopies;
		this.availableEbook = availableEbook;
	}
	
	//mutator
	public String getTitles()
	{
		return titles;
	}

	public String getAuthor()
	{
		return author;
	}
	
	public int getNumberOfCopies()
	{
		return numberOfCopies;
	}
	
	public boolean getAvailableEbook()
	{
		return availableEbook;
	}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            showMenu(); 

      } 
public static ArrayList<Book> booklist = new ArrayList<Book>();

   

      public ArrayList<Book> getBookList() {

            return booklist;

      } 
public BookStore(){ 
            booklist.add(new Book ("Absolute Java", "Savitch", 5, true));

            booklist.add(new Book ("JAVA: How to Program", "Deitel and Deitel", 0, true));

            booklist.add(new Book ("Computing Concepts with JAVA 3 Essentials", "Horstman", 5, false));

            booklist.add(new Book ("Java Software Solutions", "Lewis and Loftus", 5, false));

            booklist.add(new Book ("Java Program Design", "Cohoon and Davidson", 1, true)); 

      } 

[Matthew Brown]

OK, I still don't quite understand what you're asking. What you're doing there is creating a bunch of Book objects and adding them to an ArrayList - that's not the same as using an ArrayList to create a Book.

There's clearly something missing from the second class listing (what's the class called? BookList?), and it's a bit strange that you've got a static ArrayList, which you then populate in what looks like it's supposed to be a constructor. So what is it you're trying to achieve?

[Anne Saizan]

oky, I want to list all the books.
when I do
System.out.println(bookList);
Output:
@1513

So, how I want to make sure that the array is added in the arrayList?

[fred rosenberger]

Your booklist is an object. when you do System.out.println(booklist), you are calling the toString method of the ArrayList - which by default prints out (more or less) the memory address of the object.

What you probably want to do is call the toString() method on each object IN the array. You'll need to write a loop that iterates across all of them and prints out each book.

It's easy enough to write a method that does this, and you just pass it an ArrayList, so that it will work for ANY ArrayList.

[Anne Saizan]

oky thanks.
I will try it.
Thanks =)

[Matthew Brown]

And remember: when you print out each Book, you either need to specifically print out the informatiohn you want (e.g. book.getTitle()), or you need to implement toString() so that when you do System.out.println(book) it does what you want.

[Anne Saizan]

thank you so much guys.=)