I am having problems casting an Integer Vector like shown below. Casting the String is ok, but i'm having problems with the Integer.
private Vector a = new Vector();
Record record = new Record();
record.setName((String) listName.elementAt(i));
record.setPrice((int) listPrice.elementAt(index));
a.addElement(record);
Below is the class Record
package goldenicon;
public class Record {
String name;
int price;
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public int getPrice() {
return price;
}
public void setPrice(int price) {
this.price = price;
}
}
record.setPrice((int) listPrice.elementAt(index));
You can't put primitive type inside Arraylist or Vectors. You have to use the wrapper classes for such operations, such as Integer rather than int, or Double rather than double.
Similarly, while retrieving the values from the Vector, you will get the object of Integer and not int.
So you will have to code something like this
record.setPrice(((Integer) listPrice.elementAt(index)).intValue());
Java cannot cast an object into a primitive type. You have to invoke the object's method to perform this task. If you know that your element inherits from Number, you can just do
record.setPrice(((Number) listPrice.elementAt(index)).intValue());
You cannot cast an object to a primitive.
You can do the following, instead:
int z = (Integer) listPrice.elementAt(0);
And java autoboxing will take care of the rest for you.
Related
I am new in Dart(OOP Languange) which it is a bit similar in Java
But this code get me confusion
What is the purpose of colon(:) before the super keyword within SchoolID class that has been inherit with Person class?
Here is the code:
class Person {
String name;
int age;
int height;
Person({this.name, this.age, this.height});
}
class SchoolID extends Person {
int id;
int year;
String name;
SchoolID({this.id, this.year, this.name}) : super(name: name);
}
Another Example ,,, focus on colon the fishmap
AllFish.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json)
: fishMap = json.map(
(String k, dynamic v) => MapEntry(
k,
Fish.fromJson(v),
),
);
It's considered as an initializer list which runs before the constructor body, here you're calling the super that means the constructor of your Person class.
It's an initializer. This means the initializer is executed before the constructor body
Is it really not possible to create multiple constructors for a class in dart?
in my Player Class, If I have this constructor
Player(String name, int color) {
this._color = color;
this._name = name;
}
Then I try to add this constructor:
Player(Player another) {
this._color = another.getColor();
this._name = another.getName();
}
I get the following error:
The default constructor is already defined.
I'm not looking for a workaround by creating one Constructor with a bunch of non required arguments.
Is there a nice way to solve this?
You can only have one unnamed constructor, but you can have any number of additional named constructors
class Player {
Player(String name, int color) {
this._color = color;
this._name = name;
}
Player.fromPlayer(Player another) {
this._color = another.getColor();
this._name = another.getName();
}
}
new Player.fromPlayer(playerOne);
This constructor
Player(String name, int color) {
this._color = color;
this._name = name;
}
can be simplified to
Player(this._name, this._color);
Named constructors can also be private by starting the name with _
class Player {
Player._(this._name, this._color);
Player._foo();
}
Constructors with final fields initializer list are necessary:
class Player {
final String name;
final String color;
Player(this.name, this.color);
Player.fromPlayer(Player another) :
color = another.color,
name = another.name;
}
If your class uses final parameters the accepted answer will not work. This does:
class Player {
final String name;
final String color;
Player(this.name, this.color);
Player.fromPlayer(Player another) :
color = another.color,
name = another.name;
}
If you already used a constructor with params in the project and now you figured out that you need some no params default constructor you can add an empty constructor.
class User{
String name;
User({this.name}); //This you already had before
User.empty(); //Add this later
}
Try the below code on DartPad
class MyClass {
//These two are private attributes
int _age;
String _name;
//This is a public attribute
String defaultName = "My Default Name!";
//Default constructor
MyClass() {
_age = 0;
_name = "Anonymous";
}
MyClass.copyContructor(MyClass fromMyClass) {
this._age = fromMyClass._age;
this._name = fromMyClass._name;
}
MyClass.overloadedContructor(String name, int age) {
this._age = age;
this._name = name;
}
MyClass.overloadedContructorNamedArguemnts({String name, int age}) {
this._age = age;
this._name = name;
}
//Overriding the toString() method
String toString() {
String retVal = "Name:: " + _name + " | " + "Age:: " + _age.toString();
return retVal;
}
}
//The execution starts from here..
void main() {
MyClass myClass1 = new MyClass();
//Cannot access oprivate attributes
//print(myClass1.name);
//print(myClass1.age);
//Can access the public attribute
print("Default Name:: " + myClass1.defaultName);
print(myClass1.toString());
MyClass myClass2 = new MyClass.copyContructor(myClass1);
print(myClass2.toString());
MyClass myClass3 = new MyClass.overloadedContructor("Amit", 42);
print(myClass3.toString());
MyClass myClass4 =
new MyClass.overloadedContructorNamedArguemnts(age: 42, name: "Amit");
print(myClass4.toString());
}
Dart doesn't support parameter overloading (having multiple functions of the same name but with different parameters). This applies to constructors as well - that's the reason why in SDK there're so many classes with named constructors.
In Dart you can use Default Constructor, Named Constructor, Factory Method and Static Method to instantiate classes:
class A {
// Default constructor
A() : msg = '1';
// Named constructor with positional param
A.message(this.msg);
// Factory method with named param
factory A.underscore({String msg = ''}) {
return A.message('_'+msg);
}
// Factory method with arrow func body
static A bang(msg) => A.message('!'+msg);
final String msg;
}
void main() {
print(A().msg);
print(A.message('2').msg);
print(A.underscore(msg: '3').msg);
print(A.bang('4').msg);
}
Output:
1
2
_3
!4
You can use factory constructors
factory Player.fromPlayer(Player another) => Player(another.name, another.color);
i had found solution to solve this problem depend on checked the type of data you are passed it to function
Try this Solution
As Günter Zöchbauer already specified in his answer:
You can only have one unnamed constructor, but you can have any number of additional named constructors in Flutter.
By using named constructor you can create multiple constructors in the same class.
Each constructor will have a unique name. So that you can identify each of them.
Syntax for named constructor :
class_name.constructor_name (arguments) {
// If there is a block of code, use this syntax
// Statements
}
or
class_name.constructor_name (arguments);
// If there is no block of code, use this syntax
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To know about various types of constructors in Flutter Click Here
Class User{
User();
User.fromName(this.name);
String? name;
}
If you want to do some more elaborated property calculation (I'm a Swift guy), you can do like this:
class FooProvider {
int selectedFoo;
FooProvider(List<String> usageObjects)
: selectedFoo = firstOne(usageObjects);
static int firstOne(List<String> usageObjects) {
return 2;
}
}
I am having trouble to sort Vector for my blackberry app using SimpleSortingVector. My stuff does not sort it remains the same.
here is what i have so far...
MyComparator class
private Vector vector = new Vector(); //Assume that this vector is populated with elements already
SimpleSortingVector ssv = new SimpleSortingVector();
ssv.setSortComparator(new Comparator() {
public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
Record o1C = (Record)o1;
Record o2C = (Record)o2;
return o1C.getName().compareTo(o2C.getName());
}
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
return compare(this, obj) == 0;
}
});
for(int i=0;i<vector.size();i++){
Record record = new Record();
record=(Record) vector.elementAt(i);
//when you add elements to this vector, it is to post to be automatically sorted
ssv.addElement(record);
}
class Record
public class Record {
String name;
int price;
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public int getPrice() {
return price;
}
public void setPrice(int price) {
this.price = price;
}
}
SimpleSortingVector does not sort by default. This was unexpected for me the first time I ran into it, too, given the name of the class.
You can do one of two things. Call SimpleSortingVector.setSort(true) to make sure the vector is always sorted after each change. This is surprisingly not turned on by default.
Or, you can call SimpleSortingVector.reSort() after adding all the elements to the vector, to do the sort in one batch operation.
This might be a really stupid question but what happens to data that is returned from a method? For example, if I have a method that adds two numbers and I tell it to return the sum, how would I access that information from the place where the method was called?
Assuming your question is related with java.
You could assign the whole method to a new variable.
public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]){
int value1=2;
int value2=5;
int sum=sum(value1,value2);
System.out.println("The sum is :"+ sum);
}
public static int sum(int value1,int value2){
return value1+value2;
}
}
What is actually happening, is that the method signature sum(value1,value2) holds the result of the 2 numbers summation. There is also another way of writing the code inside the method but the result will be the same.
For example:
public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]){
int sum=sum(2,5);
System.out.println("The sum is :"+ sum);
}
public static int sum(int value1,int value2){
int sum=value1+value2;
return sum;
}
}
P.S. You could try to use the above samples directly. They will compile and run.
In most languages, you access the result of a function by putting the function call on the right hand side of an assignment expression.
For example, in Python, you can assign the result of calling the built-in len function on a list to a variable called x by doing the following:
x = len([1, 2, 3])
The problem I have is that I need to do about 40+ conversions to convert loosely typed info into strongly typed info stored in db, xml file, etc.
I'm plan to tag each type with a tuple i.e. a transformational form like this:
host.name.string:host.dotquad.string
which will offer a conversion from the input to an output form. For example, the name stored in the host field of type string, the input is converted into a dotquad notation of type string and stored back into host field. More complex conversions may need several steps, with each step being accomplished by a method call, hence method chaining.
Examining further the example above, the tuple 'host.name.string' with the field host of name www.domain.com. A DNS lookup is done to covert domain name to IP address. Another method is applied to change the type returned by the DNS lookup into the internal type of dotquad of type string. For this transformation, there is 4 seperate methods called to convert from one tuple into another. Some other conversions may require more steps.
Ideally I would like an small example of how method chains are constructed at runtime. Development time method chaining is relatively trivial, but would require pages and pages of code to cover all possibilites, with 40+ conversions.
One way I thought of doing is, is parsing the tuples at startup, and writing the chains out to an assembly, compiling it, then using reflection to load/access. Its would be really ugly and negate the performance increases i'm hoping to gain.
I'm using Mono, so no C# 4.0
Any help would be appreciated.
Bob.
Here is a quick and dirty solution using LINQ Expressions. You have indicated that you want C# 2.0, this is 3.5, but it does run on Mono 2.6. The method chaining is a bit hacky as i didn't exactly know how your version works, so you might need to tweak the expression code to suit.
The real magic really happens in the Chainer class, which takes a collection of strings, which represent the MethodChain subclass. Take a collection like this:
{
"string",
"string",
"int"
}
This will generate a chain like this:
new StringChain(new StringChain(new IntChain()));
Chainer.CreateChain will return a lambda that calls MethodChain.Execute(). Because Chainer.CreateChain uses a bit of reflection, it's slow, but it only needs to run once for each expression chain. The execution of the lambda is nearly as fast as calling actual code.
Hope you can fit this into your architecture.
public abstract class MethodChain {
private MethodChain[] m_methods;
private object m_Result;
public MethodChain(params MethodChain[] methods) {
m_methods = methods;
}
public MethodChain Execute(object expression) {
if(m_methods != null) {
foreach(var method in m_methods) {
expression = method.Execute(expression).GetResult<object>();
}
}
m_Result = ExecuteInternal(expression);
return this;
}
protected abstract object ExecuteInternal(object expression);
public T GetResult<T>() {
return (T)m_Result;
}
}
public class IntChain : MethodChain {
public IntChain(params MethodChain[] methods)
: base(methods) {
}
protected override object ExecuteInternal(object expression) {
return int.Parse(expression as string);
}
}
public class StringChain : MethodChain {
public StringChain(params MethodChain[] methods):base(methods) {
}
protected override object ExecuteInternal(object expression) {
return (expression as string).Trim();
}
}
public class Chainer {
/// <summary>
/// methods are executed from back to front, so methods[1] will call method[0].Execute before executing itself
/// </summary>
/// <param name="methods"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public Func<object, MethodChain> CreateChain(IEnumerable<string> methods) {
Expression expr = null;
foreach(var methodName in methods.Reverse()) {
ConstructorInfo cInfo= null;
switch(methodName.ToLower()) {
case "string":
cInfo = typeof(StringChain).GetConstructor(new []{typeof(MethodChain[])});
break;
case "int":
cInfo = typeof(IntChain).GetConstructor(new[] { typeof(MethodChain[]) });
break;
}
if(cInfo == null)
continue;
if(expr != null)
expr = Expression.New(cInfo, Expression.NewArrayInit( typeof(MethodChain), Expression.Convert(expr, typeof(MethodChain))));
else
expr = Expression.New(cInfo, Expression.Constant(null, typeof(MethodChain[])));
}
var objParam = Expression.Parameter(typeof(object));
var methodExpr = Expression.Call(expr, typeof(MethodChain).GetMethod("Execute"), objParam);
Func<object, MethodChain> lambda = Expression.Lambda<Func<object, MethodChain>>(methodExpr, objParam).Compile();
return lambda;
}
[TestMethod]
public void ExprTest() {
Chainer chainer = new Chainer();
var lambda = chainer.CreateChain(new[] { "int", "string" });
var result = lambda(" 34 ").GetResult<int>();
Assert.AreEqual(34, result);
}
}
The command pattern would fit here. What you could do is queue up commands as you need different operations performed on the different data types. Those messages could then all be processed and call the appropriate methods when you're ready later on.
This pattern can be implemented in .NET 2.0.
Do you really need to do this at execution time? Can't you create the combination of operations using code generation?
Let me elaborate:
Assuming you have a class called Conversions which contains all the 40+ convertions you mentioned like this:
//just pseudo code..
class conversions{
string host_name(string input){}
string host_dotquad(string input){}
int type_convert(string input){}
float type_convert(string input){}
float increment_float(float input){}
}
Write a simple console app or something similar which uses reflection to generate code for methods like this:
execute_host_name(string input, Queue<string> conversionQueue)
{
string ouput = conversions.host_name(input);
if(conversionQueue.Count == 0)
return output;
switch(conversionQueue.dequeue())
{
// generate case statements only for methods that take in
// a string as parameter because the host_name method returns a string.
case "host.dotquad": return execute_host_dotquad(output,conversionQueue);
case "type.convert": return execute_type_convert(output, conversionQueue);
default: // exception...
}
}
Wrap all this in a Nice little execute method like this:
object execute(string input, string [] conversions)
{
Queue<string> conversionQueue = //create the queue..
case(conversionQueue.dequeue())
{
case "host.name": return execute_host_name(output,conversionQueue);
case "host.dotquad": return execute_host_dotquad(output,conversionQueue);
case "type.convert": return execute_type_convert(output, conversionQueue);
default: // exception...
}
}
This code generation application need to be executed only when your method signatures changes or when you decide to add new transformations.
Main advantages:
No runtime overhead
Easy to add/delete/change the conversions (code generator will take care of the code changes :) )
What do you think?
I apologize for the long code dump and the fact that it is in Java, rather than C#, but I found your problem quite interesting and I do not have much C# experience. Hopefully you will be able to adapt this solution without difficulty.
One approach to solving your problem is to create a cost for each conversion -- usually this is related to the accuracy of the conversion -- and then perform a search to find the best possible conversion sequence to get from one type to another.
The reason for needing a cost function is to choose among multiple conversion paths. For example, converting from an integer to a string is lossless, but there is no guarantee that every string can be represented by an integer. So, if you had two conversion chains
string -> integer -> float -> decimal
string -> float -> decimal
You would want to select the second one because it will reduce the chance of a conversion failure.
The Java code below implements such a scheme and performs a best-first search to find an optimal conversion sequence. I hope you find it useful. Running the code produces the following output:
> No conversion possible from string to integer
> The optimal conversion sequence from string to host.dotquad.string is:
> string to host.name.string, cost = -1.609438
> host.name.string to host.dns, cost = -1.609438 *PERFECT*
> host.dns to host.dotquad, cost = -1.832581
> host.dotquad to host.dotquad.string, cost = -1.832581 *PERFECT*
Here is the Java code.
/**
* Use best-first search to find an optimal sequence of operations for
* performing a type conversion with maximum fidelity.
*/
import java.util.*;
public class TypeConversion {
/**
* Define a type-conversion interface. It converts between to
* user-defined types and provides a measure of fidelity (accuracy)
* of the conversion.
*/
interface ITypeConverter<T, F> {
public T convert(F from);
public double fidelity();
// Could use reflection instead of handling this explicitly
public String getSourceType();
public String getTargetType();
}
/**
* Create a set of user-defined types.
*/
class HostName {
public String hostName;
public HostName(String hostName) {
this.hostName = hostName;
}
}
class DnsLookup {
public String ipAddress;
public DnsLookup(HostName hostName) {
this.ipAddress = doDNSLookup(hostName);
}
private String doDNSLookup(HostName hostName) {
return "127.0.0.1";
}
}
class DottedQuad {
public int[] quad = new int[4];
public DottedQuad(DnsLookup lookup) {
String[] split = lookup.ipAddress.split(".");
for ( int i = 0; i < 4; i++ )
quad[i] = Integer.parseInt( split[i] );
}
}
/**
* Define a set of conversion operations between the types. We only
* implement a minimal number for brevity, but this could be expanded.
*
* We start by creating some broad classes to differentiate among
* perfect, good and bad conversions.
*/
abstract class PerfectTypeConversion<T, F> implements ITypeConverter<T, F> {
public abstract T convert(F from);
public double fidelity() { return 1.0; }
}
abstract class GoodTypeConversion<T, F> implements ITypeConverter<T, F> {
public abstract T convert(F from);
public double fidelity() { return 0.8; }
}
abstract class BadTypeConversion<T, F> implements ITypeConverter<T, F> {
public abstract T convert(F from);
public double fidelity() { return 0.2; }
}
/**
* Concrete classes that do the actual conversions.
*/
class StringToHostName extends BadTypeConversion<HostName, String> {
public HostName convert(String from) { return new HostName(from); }
public String getSourceType() { return "string"; }
public String getTargetType() { return "host.name.string"; }
}
class HostNameToDnsLookup extends PerfectTypeConversion<DnsLookup, HostName> {
public DnsLookup convert(HostName from) { return new DnsLookup(from); }
public String getSourceType() { return "host.name.string"; }
public String getTargetType() { return "host.dns"; }
}
class DnsLookupToDottedQuad extends GoodTypeConversion<DottedQuad, DnsLookup> {
public DottedQuad convert(DnsLookup from) { return new DottedQuad(from); }
public String getSourceType() { return "host.dns"; }
public String getTargetType() { return "host.dotquad"; }
}
class DottedQuadToString extends PerfectTypeConversion<String, DottedQuad> {
public String convert(DottedQuad f) {
return f.quad[0] + "." + f.quad[1] + "." + f.quad[2] + "." + f.quad[3];
}
public String getSourceType() { return "host.dotquad"; }
public String getTargetType() { return "host.dotquad.string"; }
}
/**
* To find the best conversion sequence, we need to instantiate
* a list of converters.
*/
ITypeConverter<?,?> converters[] =
{
new StringToHostName(),
new HostNameToDnsLookup(),
new DnsLookupToDottedQuad(),
new DottedQuadToString()
};
Map<String, List<ITypeConverter<?,?>>> fromMap =
new HashMap<String, List<ITypeConverter<?,?>>>();
public void buildConversionMap()
{
for ( ITypeConverter<?,?> converter : converters )
{
String type = converter.getSourceType();
if ( !fromMap.containsKey( type )) {
fromMap.put( type, new ArrayList<ITypeConverter<?,?>>());
}
fromMap.get(type).add(converter);
}
}
public class Tuple implements Comparable<Tuple>
{
public String type;
public double cost;
public Tuple parent;
public Tuple(String type, double cost, Tuple parent) {
this.type = type;
this.cost = cost;
this.parent = parent;
}
public int compareTo(Tuple o) {
return Double.compare( cost, o.cost );
}
}
public Tuple findOptimalConversionSequence(String from, String target)
{
PriorityQueue<Tuple> queue = new PriorityQueue<Tuple>();
// Add a dummy start node to the queue
queue.add( new Tuple( from, 0.0, null ));
// Perform the search
while ( !queue.isEmpty() )
{
// Pop the most promising candidate from the list
Tuple tuple = queue.remove();
// If the type matches the target type, return
if ( tuple.type == target )
return tuple;
// If we have reached a dead-end, backtrack
if ( !fromMap.containsKey( tuple.type ))
continue;
// Otherwise get all of the possible conversions to
// perform next and add their costs
for ( ITypeConverter<?,?> converter : fromMap.get( tuple.type ))
{
String type = converter.getTargetType();
double cost = tuple.cost + Math.log( converter.fidelity() );
queue.add( new Tuple( type, cost, tuple ));
}
}
// No solution
return null;
}
public static void convert(String from, String target)
{
TypeConversion tc = new TypeConversion();
// Build a conversion lookup table
tc.buildConversionMap();
// Find the tail of the optimal conversion chain.
Tuple tail = tc.findOptimalConversionSequence( from, target );
if ( tail == null ) {
System.out.println( "No conversion possible from " + from + " to " + target );
return;
}
// Reconstruct the conversion path (skip dummy node)
List<Tuple> solution = new ArrayList<Tuple>();
for ( ; tail.parent != null ; tail = tail.parent )
solution.add( tail );
Collections.reverse( solution );
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
Formatter formatter = new Formatter(sb);
sb.append( "The optimal conversion sequence from " + from + " to " + target + " is:\n" );
for ( Tuple tuple : solution ) {
formatter.format( "%20s to %20s, cost = %f", tuple.parent.type, tuple.type, tuple.cost );
if ( tuple.cost == tuple.parent.cost )
sb.append( " *PERFECT*");
sb.append( "\n" );
}
System.out.println( sb.toString() );
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Run two tests
convert( "string", "integer" );
convert( "string", "host.dotquad.string" );
}
}