Thread: Java Inheritance problem

Hey guys I'm a bit stuck here with my inheritance

package Lab3;
 
public class Building {
	/* {author=John Roche sb12218, version=1.1}*/
 
	// Attributes : Instance variables
	  public Integer width;
 
	  public Integer length;
 
	  public Integer number_of_floors;
 
	//constructor to intialise data members
	  public Building (int l,  int w, int floors){
		  length=l; width=w;  number_of_floors=floors;
	  }
	//this method returns the total area of the building
	  public double area(){
		  return length * width * number_of_floors;
		  }
	//Set Methods 
	  public void setLength(int l) {
		  length =l;
	  }
 
	  public void setWidth(int w) {
		  width =w;
	  }
 
	  public void setNumber_Of_Floors(int floors) {
		  number_of_floors =floors;
	  }
 
 
	//Full set of Get methods
	  public Integer getLength() {
		  return length;
	  }
 
	  public Integer getWidth() {
		  return width;
	  }
 
	  public Integer getNumber_Of_Floors() {
		  return  number_of_floors;
	  }
 
 
	}

package Lab3;
 
public class House extends Building {
 
/* {author=John Roche sb12218, version=1.1}*/
 
 
 
	// Attributes : Instance variables
	 public Integer noBedroom;  
 
	// use superclass constructor
	 public House ( ){
		 super( 0, 0, 0);
	 }
 
	public House(int l, int w, int floors) {
		super(l, w, floors);
 
	}
	public House (int l, int w, int floors, int nBrooms){
		super(l, w, floors);
		noBedroom = nBrooms;
		} 
 
	//Set Methods 	
 
	  public void setNoBedroom(int nBrooms) {
		  noBedroom = nBrooms;
	  }
	//Full set of Get methods 
 
	  public Integer getNoBedroom() {
		  return  noBedroom;
	  }
 
 
 
 
 
}

package Lab3;
 
public class BlockOfFlats extends House {
 
/* {author=John Roche sb12218, version=1.1}*/
 
	// Attributes : Instance variables
 
	  public BlockOfFlats(int l, int w, int floors) {
		super(l, w, floors);
 
	}
	  int noFlats;
	  public Integer rent;
 
	  static final double RENT_PER_M2 = 100;
	// parameterless constructor
	  public BlockOfFlats ( ) { 
 
	  }
	// constructor to initialise all data members
	  public BlockOfFlats (int l, int  w, int floors, int nBrooms, int nFlats)
	  {
	  super(l, w, floors, nBrooms);
	  noFlats = nFlats;
	  }
 
	  public double calculateRent(){
		  return area()* RENT_PER_M2;
		  }
 
 
 
	}

package Lab3;
 
import Lab2.DVD;
 
public class Lab3test {
 
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// Create 2 object variables of type CD
		Building building;
		House house;
		BlockOfFlats flats;
		// Allocate some memory for each new object
		building = new Building(0, 0, 0);
		house = new House();
		flats = new BlockOfFlats();
 
		// Set the title by accessing the attribute directly
 
		building.setWidth(200);
		building.setLength(300);
		building.setNumber_Of_Floors(2);
 
		house.setNoBedroom(4);
 
 
 
 
		// Output each objects title value
		System.out.println("Number of Floors = " + building.getNumber_Of_Floors());
		System.out.println("Building Area = " + building.area());
		System.out.println("Number of Rooms = " + house.getNoBedroom());
		System.out.println("Rent = " + flats.calculateRent());
 
 
 
 
	}
 
}

my output is

Number of Floors = 2
Building Area = 120000.0
Number of Rooms = 4
Rent = 0.0

for some reason the rent is not being calculated in the BlockOfFlats class I'm not sure why
everything look ok to me
any help?

Please edit your post and fix the code tags. Try

[code=java]

//... your code goes here

[/code]

fixed the [code=java] part

OK. Your area and thus your rent is being calculated correctly. You're calculating it on the BlockOfFlats object, and for that object the 0 area is correct.

What are you expecting that the result should be?

I was expecting 12000000

Originally Posted by Grot

I was expecting 12000000

Please explain why you would expect that. Understand that you're calling the calculateRent() method on the flats variable. Please show where you make settings to the object that this variable references so that rent would return anything but 0.