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    Default Strings not being added to arraylist

    Nevermind I figured it out
    Last edited by noel222; February 10th, 2012 at 05:25 PM.


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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    How are you detecting what the arraylist contains or does not contains?

    Your bits and pieces of code do not show enough to make suggestions about what the problem is.

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    I am having difficulty adding strings to an array list. I am not getting any error, however, when I check to see if the array list contains the strings that should be in it, it does not.
    Nowhere in your code do I see a String being added to an ArrayList - I do see instances of Player. If you want to retrieve a Player based upon name, loop over the List and check for the name, or use a Map

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    I am using the contains method to see if the players and nicknames were added. They are not and I am not sure how to add them

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    You left out some key details. What does your constructor for Roster actually do? I see that you define teamRoster in class Roster immediately. Do this in the constructor to ensure that it gets executed.

    The following code is untested but holds the basic concept of what you are looking for.
    public class Team
    {
    	public Roster roster;
     
    	Team()
    	{
    		this.roster = new Roster();
    	}
     
    	public static void main(String[] args)
    	{
    		Team myTeam = new Team();
    		System.out.println(myTeam.roster.add(new Player("Java","Java prog")));
    		System.out.println(myTeam.roster.add(new Player("1","1.2")));
    		System.out.println(myTeam.roster.add(new Player("2","2.2")));
    	}
     
    }
     
    class Roster
    {
    	ArrayList<Player> playerList;
     
    	Roster()
    	{
    		this.playList = new ArrayList<Player>();
    	}
     
    	public boolean add(Player player)
    	{
    		return this.playerList.add(player);
    	}
    }
     
    class Player
    {
    	private String name;
    	private String nickName;
     
    	Player(String name, String nickName)
    	{
    		this.name = name;
    		this.nickName = nickName;
    	}
     
    	Player()
    	{
    		this("","");
    	}
    }

    The following should net you output of 3 "true"s, each on a separate line.
    Kenneth Walter
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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    I am using the contains method to see if the players and nicknames were added. They are not
    Have you tried printing out the contents of the arraylist to see if it contains anything?

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Yes, I used the contain method to see if the array contained the players names and nicknames and it does not. It simply holds nothing. I put in 2 get methods to get the player names and nicknames but I am still not sure how to add these to the arraylist

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    It simply holds nothing
    What is printed out when you use println to print it?

    Add a println() call immediately after the code that adds to the arraylist:
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    teamRoster.add(new Player("Keith", "The Man"));
    System.out.println("tR=" + teamRoster); // show the contents.

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Nothing is being printed out because I don't think I put the strings in the array properly

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Did you try what I just posted to see what was in the arraylists?
    Add a println() call immediately after the code that adds to the arraylist:
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    teamRoster.add(new Player("Keith", "The Man"));
    System.out.println("tR=" + teamRoster); // show the contents.

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Yes, I just tried it and it the exact message that came up was tR= filename@4e82710e

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Read my post above...the ArrayList does not contain Strings - it contains players. If you are using contains() to check for the presence of a String, you will always get false. But I can only guess this is what you are trying to do, because you have not shown us the code which attempts to find the 'String' in the ArrayList

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    tR= filename@4e82710e
    That says that the teamRoster variable is a filename class object, NOT an arraylist. Do you have a class named: filename?
    You need to post the definition for the teamRoster variable whose add() method is being called.

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Even when I simply say to print out the contents of the array, I get values such as filename@343kgdf instead of the actual values. I am not sure how to get the values

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    That says that the teamRoster variable is a filename class object, NOT an arraylist. Do you have a class named: filename?
    You need to post the definition for the teamRoster variable whose add() method is being called.

    If teamRoster was a ArrayList the output would look like this:
          class Testing {}
          ArrayList<Testing> al = new ArrayList<Testing>();
          al.add(new Testing());
          al.add(new Testing());
          System.out.println("al=" + al); // al=[TestCode10$1Testing@addbf1, TestCode10$1Testing@42e816]
    Notice the [] around the output
    Last edited by Norm; February 10th, 2012 at 04:38 PM.

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    I posted my code in my first post. I am not really sure what you guys are asking me to post. That is all I have. I am not sure why the player names and nicknames are not in the array?

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    If teamRoster was a ArrayList the output would look like this:
          class Testing {}
          ArrayList<Testing> al = new ArrayList<Testing>();
          al.add(new Testing());
          al.add(new Testing());
          System.out.println("al=" + al); // al=[TestCode10$1Testing@addbf1, TestCode10$1Testing@42e816]
    Notice the [] around the output

    tR= filename@4e82710e
    That says that the teamRoster variable is a filename class object, NOT an arraylist. Do you have a class named: filename?
    Last edited by Norm; February 10th, 2012 at 04:43 PM.

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    No, I do not, I have a class named roster and names

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Can you post the println statement that printed this: tR= filename@4e82710e

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    I wrote the exact println statement you told me to do earlier.

    System.out.println("TR=" + teamRoster);

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    Quote Originally Posted by noel222 View Post
    I posted my code in my first post. I am not really sure what you guys are asking me to post. That is all I have. I am not sure why the player names and nicknames are not in the array?
    From post #7
    Yes, I used the contain method to see if the array contained the players names and nicknames and it does not.
    I see nothing in your first post that uses the contains method. If you are using it like this
    if ( teamRoster.contains("Mark") ){
     
    }

    contains will always contain false, as it contains Player objects, not String objects. It helps to post an SSCCE which will more clearly demonstrate the problem.

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    sorry about that. I simply used the contain method to check and then deleted it once I saw the array did not contain the names and nicknames

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    There is no space in the code you posted.
    There is a space in this: tR= filename@4e82710e

    Explain that please!

    Does the teamRoster class object have a toString() method that returns that String you show in the post?

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    Default Re: Strings not being added to arraylist

    As copeg suggests: post an SSCCE which will more clearly demonstrate the problem.

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    What is an SSCCE

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