Re: Needs help in editing

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:09:33 -0400
Message-ID:
<iubk5f$bl0$1@news.albasani.net>
On 06/23/2011 02:25 PM, Eric wrote:

Hi guys: Can any one please help me how to i do the changes in my
program according to the following 4 changes.

1) Create a Date type birth data instance field in the Employee class,
not a String


public class Employee
{
   Date birthData;
....

2) Enlarge the constructors for the Employee class and subclasses to
pass the int month, int day, and int year of the birth date as input
by the user to PayrollSystemTest to the subclass constructor, and then
to the Employee class constructor


They're asking for a lot, aren't they?

Do you understand the question?

For example, consider a no-arg constructor:

   public Employee()
   {
   }

To "enlarge" the constructor is to add another constructor with additional
arguments. For example, an "enlarged" constructor that takes a 'Date'
argument looks like this:

   public Employee( Date aDate )
   {
     // do something with the argument
   }

The term "enlarge a constructor" has no formal meaning in Java. It's an
informal way to ask for additional constructors.

Constructors should not ask the user for input. Constructors exist to
construct the instance, not to perform logic. Note that the problem asks for
a different type, 'PayrollSystemTest', to accept the user input. It will then
place the required data into appropriate variables (or one appropriate
variable) and use those variables (that variable) as arguments to the
constructor of an 'Employee' subtype.

So the 'Employee' constructor will not contain logic to accept input from the
user.

Nor will any other constructor.

Since an 'Employee' subtype constructor accepts the arguments, the subtype
constructor must relay the information to 'Employee' via its call to
'super(someArguments)'.

3) Input from the user for the 5 specific employees and then comment
out the hardcoding for the 4 employees in the original code


This is an academic exercise. In real code you delete code, not comment it out.

4) Report monthly salary amounts and include the November birthday
bonus

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Employee {

     String socialSecurity;
     String birthDate;


Usually member variables should be 'private', and in this case, 'final'.

     public Employee(String socialSecurity, String birthDate){
         this.birthDate = birthDate;
         this.socialSecurity = socialSecurity;
     }


What if the arguments are 'null'?

     public String getSocialSecurity(){
         return socialSecurity;
     }

     public String getBirthDate(){
         return birthDate;
     }

     public String toString(){
         return ("Employee: Social security " + socialSecurity
+ " date of birth " + birthDate);
     }

     public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
         System.out.println("Enter employees one by one");
         ArrayList<Employee> ar = new ArrayList<Employee>();

         while(true){
             System.out.println(" Employee types available:");
               System.out.println("");
             System.out.println("1-Salaried Employee");
             System.out.println("2-Hourly Employee");
             System.out.println("3-Commission Employee");
             System.out.println("4-Based Salary Commission
Employee");
             System.out.println("");
               System.out.println("Enter employee type (1-4) .
Finish list with type 0: ");

                      String typeString = keyboard.next();
           // boolean goodInput = true;
             int type = -1;


What's with the "-1" crud? Use the string.

               try{
                   type = Integer.parseInt(typeString);
               } catch(Exception ex){


Class, what are we supposed to do with exceptions?

               }

             if(type<0 || type> 4){
                 System.out.println("Invalid type. Please, try
again. ");
                 continue;
             }

            if(type == 0)break;


Wow.

             System.out.println("Enter social security: ");
             String social = keyboard.next();
              System.out.println("Enter date of birth: ");
                String birth = keyboard.next();

                      boolean goodInput = true;
             switch(type){


Giant Switch Statement Alert!

Soon you will learn to write subroutines. That will help.

--
Lew
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