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[Jayden Brymatt]

I'm almost done with this. Now, when I choose to display the contacts, I'm getting

contactslist.PersonalContact@1193779

. I believe it's picking the right contact, just not showing me what I want to see. I'm guessing there's some method or something small that I'm missing. Any help would be appreciated.

Main:

package contactslist;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ContactsList {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner input1 = new Scanner(System.in);
        int type = 0;
        ArrayList<Contacts> contacts = new ArrayList<Contacts>();
        int conID = 0;
        int a = contacts.size();
        int contactId = 0;
        while(type != 4){
            conID++;
        System.out.println("[1] Personal Contact");
        System.out.println("[2] Business Contact");
        System.out.println("[3] Display Contacts");
        System.out.println("[4] to quit");
        type = input1.nextInt();
        if(type == 4){
            System.out.println("Goodbye");
            break;
            }
        else if (type == 3){
            displayContacts(contacts);
            System.out.println("Please select the number of the contact you would like more information on.");
            Scanner selection = new Scanner(System.in);
            int con = selection.nextInt() - 1;
            Contacts info = contacts.get(con);
            System.out.println(info);
            break;
            }
            
        Scanner inputs = new Scanner(System.in);
        //System.out.println("Please enter a unique numeric ContactId: ");
        contactId = conID;
        System.out.println("Please enter First Name: ");
        String firstName = inputs.nextLine();
        if (firstName == null) {
            break;
        }
        System.out.println("Please enter Last Name: ");
        String lastName = inputs.nextLine();
        if (lastName == null) {
            break;
        }
        System.out.println("Please enter Address: ");
        String address = inputs.nextLine();
        System.out.println("Please enter Phone Number: ");
        String phoneNumber = inputs.nextLine();
        System.out.println("Please enter Email Address: ");
        String emailAddress = inputs.nextLine();
        if(type == 1){
           System.out.println("Please enter Birthday: ");
           String dateofBirth = inputs.nextLine();
           Contacts personal = new PersonalContact(contactId, firstName, lastName, address, phoneNumber, emailAddress, dateofBirth);
           contacts.add(personal);
        }
        else if(type == 2){
            System.out.println("Please enter Job Title: ");
            String jobTitle = inputs.nextLine();
            System.out.println("Please enter Organization: ");
            String organization = inputs.nextLine();
            Contacts business = new BusinessContact(contactId, firstName, lastName, address, phoneNumber, emailAddress, jobTitle, organization);
            contacts.add(business);
        }
        }
        }
        public static void displayContacts(ArrayList<Contacts> contacts){
        for (Contacts c: contacts){
            c.displayContacts();
        }
        }
        public static void displayOne(ArrayList<Contacts> contacts) {
            for (int j = 0; j < contacts.size(); j++) {
                {
                 contacts.get(j);
                }
            }
            }
        }
        

Contacts class:

package contactslist;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public abstract class Contacts {
    int contactId;
    String firstName;
    String lastName;
    String address;
    String phoneNumber;
    String emailAddress;
    public Contacts(int contactId,String firstName,String lastName, String address, String phoneNumber, String emailAddress)
    {
        this.contactId = contactId;
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
        this.address = address;
        this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
        this.emailAddress = emailAddress;
    }
    public void setContactId(){
       this.contactId = contactId;
    }
    public int getContactId(){
        return contactId;
    }
    public void setFirstName(String input){
        this.firstName = input;
    }
    public String getFirstName(){
        return firstName;
    }
    public void setLastName(String input){
        this.lastName = input;
    }
    public String getLastName(){
        return lastName;
    }
    public void setAddress(String input){
        this.address = input;
    }
    public String getAddress(){
        return address;
    }
    public void setPhoneNumber(String input){
        this.phoneNumber = input;
    }
    public String getPhoneNumber(){
        return phoneNumber;
    }
    public void setEmailAddress(String input){
        this.emailAddress = input;
    }
    public String getEmailAddress(){
        return emailAddress;        
    }
    public void displayContacts(){
        System.out.println("Contact Id: " + contactId + " First Name: " + firstName + " Last Name: " + lastName);
    }

    public void displayOne() {
        System.out.println("Contact Id: " + contactId);
        System.out.println("First Name: " + firstName);
        System.out.println("Last Name: " + lastName);
        System.out.println("Address: " + address);
        System.out.println("Phone Number: " + phoneNumber);
        System.out.println("Email Address: " + emailAddress);
        }
}

Personal Contacts Class:

package contactslist;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class PersonalContact extends Contacts{
    private String dateofBirth;
public PersonalContact(int contactId, String firstName, String lastName, String address, String phoneNumber, String emailAddress, String dateofBirth){
    super(contactId, firstName, lastName, address, phoneNumber, emailAddress);
    this.dateofBirth = dateofBirth;
}
public void setDateofBirth(String input){
    this.dateofBirth=input;
}
public String getDateofBirth(){
    return this.dateofBirth;
}
@Override
public void displayOne() {
        System.out.println("Personal Contact: ");
        System.out.println("Contact Id: " + contactId);
        System.out.println("First Name: " + firstName);
        System.out.println("Last Name: " + lastName);
        System.out.println("Address: " + address);
        System.out.println("Phone Number: " + phoneNumber);
        System.out.println("Email Address: " + emailAddress);
        System.out.println("Birthdate: " + dateofBirth);
}
}

Business Contacts class:

package contactslist;
public class BusinessContact extends Contacts{
    private String jobTitle;
    private String organization;
public BusinessContact(int contactId, String firstName, String lastName, String address, String phoneNumber, String emailAddress, String jobTitle, String organization){
    super(contactId, firstName, lastName, address, phoneNumber, emailAddress);
    this.jobTitle = jobTitle;
    this.organization = organization;
}
public void jobTitle(String input){
    this.jobTitle = jobTitle;
}
public String getjobTitle(){
    return this.jobTitle;
}
public void organization(String input) {
    this.organization = organization;
}
public String getOrganization(){
    return this.organization;
}
@Override
public void displayOne() {
        System.out.println("Business Contact: ");
        System.out.println("Contact Id: " + contactId);
        System.out.println("First Name: " + firstName);
        System.out.println("Last Name: " + lastName);
        System.out.println("Address: " + address);
        System.out.println("Phone Number: " + phoneNumber);
        System.out.println("Email Address: " + emailAddress);
        System.out.println("Job Title: " + jobTitle);
        System.out.println("Organization: " + organization);
}
}

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Jayden,
If you implement the toString() method in the Contacts class, it will output human readable information. For example:

public String toString() {
  return firstName + " "  + lastName;
}

[Jayden Brymatt]

That was a heck of a lot easier than what I was trying to do. Thanks so much for helping out!