Objectives

Be able to write overloaded methods

Be able to write equals and toString methods

Be able to use objects made up of other objects (Aggregation)

Be able to write methods that pass and return objects

Introduction

We discussed objects in Chapter 3 and we modeled a television in the Chapter 3. We want build on that exercise, and work more with objects. This time, the object that we are choosing is more complicated. It is made up of other objects. This is called aggregation. A credit card is an object that is very common, but not as simple as a television. Attributes of the credit card include information about the owner, as well as a balance and credit limit. These things would be our instance fields. A credit card allows you to make payments and charges. These would be methods. As we have seen before, there would also be other methods associated with this object in order to construct the object and access its fields.

Examine the UML diagram that follows. Notice that the instance fields in the CreditCard class are other types of objects, a Person object or a Money object. We can say that the CreditCard has a Person, which means aggregation, and the Person object has a Address object as one of its instance fields. This aggregation structure can create a very complicated object. I will try to keep this lab reasonably simple.

To start with, we will be editing a partially written class, Money. We will investigate overloading methods by writing another constructor method. The constructor that you will be writing is a copy constructor. This means it should create a new object, but with the same values in the instance variables as the object that is being copied.

Next, we will write equals and toString methods. These are very common methods that are needed when you write a class to model an object. You will also see a compareTo method that is also a common method for objects.

After we have finished the Money class, we will write a CreditCard class. This class contains Money objects, so you will use the methods that you have written to complete the Money class. The CreditCard class will explore passing objects and the possible security problems associated with it. We will use the copy constructor we wrote for the Money class to create new objects with the same information to return to the user through the accessor methods.

Credit Card

-balance:Money

-creditLimit:Money

-owner:Person

+CreditCard(newCardHolder:Person, limit:Money)

+getBalance():Money

+getCreditLimit():Money

+getPersonals():String

+charge(amount:Money):void

+payment(amount:Money):void

Money

-dollars:long

-cents:long

+Money(anount:double)

+Money(otherObject:Money)

+add(otherAmount:Money):Money

+subtract(otherAmount:Money):Money

+compareTo(otherObject:Money):int

+equals(otherObject:Money):boolean

+toString():String

Person

-lastName:String

-firstName:String

-home:Address

+toString():String

Address

-street:String

-city:String

-state:String

-zip:String

+toString():String

Task #1 Overloading by Writing a Copy Constructor

1. Refer to class handout, the files Address.java, Person.java, Money.java, MoneyDriver.java, andCreditCardDemo.java.

Address.java, Person.java, MoneyDemo.java, and CreditCardDemo.java are complete and will not need to be modified. We will start by modifying Money.java.

2. Overload the constructor. The constructor that you will write will be a copy constructor. It should use the parameter money object to make a duplicate money object, by copying the value of each instance variable from the parameter object to the instance variable of the new object.

Task #2 Writing equals and toString methods

1. Write and document an equals method. The method compares the instance variables of the calling object with instance variables of the parameter object for equality and returns true if the dollars and the cents of the calling object are the same as the dollars and the cents of the parameter object. Otherwise, it returns false.

2. Write and document a toString method. This method will return a String that looks like money, including the dollar sign. Remember that if you have less than 10 cents, you will need to put a 0 before printing the cents so that it appears correctly with 2 decimal places.

3. Compile, debug, and test by running the MoneyDriver.java driver program. You should get the output:

The current amount is $500.00

Adding $10.02 gives $510.02

Subtracting $10.88 gives $499.14

$10.02 equals $10.02

$10.88 does not equal $10.02

Task #3 Passing and Returning Objects

1. Create a CreditCard class according to the UML Diagram on page 2. It should have data fields that include an owner of type Person, a balance of type Money, and a creditLimit of type Money.

2. It should have a constructor that has two parameters, a Person to initialize the owner and a Money value to initialize the creditLimit. The balance can be initialized to a Money value of zero. Remember you are passing in objects (pass by reference), so you have passed in the address to an object. If you want your

CreditCard to have its own creditLimit and balance, you should create a new object of each using the copy constructor in the Money class.

3. It should have accessor methods to get the balance and the available credit. Since these are objects (pass by reference), we dont want to create an insecure credit card by passing out addresses to components in our credit card, so we must return a new object with the same values. Again, use the copy constructor

to create a new object of type money that can be returned.

4. It should have an accessor method to get the information about the owner, but in the form of a String that can be printed out. This can be done by calling the toString method for the owner (who is a Person).

5. It should have a method that will charge to the credit card by adding the amount of Money in the parameter to the balance if it will not exceed the credit limit. If the credit limit will be exceeded, the amount should not be added, and an error message can be printed to the console.

6. It should have a method that will make a payment on the credit card by subtracting the amount of Money in the parameter from the balance.

7. Compile, debug, and test it out completely by running CreditCardDemo.java.

You should get the output:

Diane Christie, 237J Harvey Hall, Menomonie, WI

54751

Balance: $0.00

Credit Limit: $1000.00

Attempt to charge $200.00

Charge: $200.00

Balance: $200.00

Attempt to charge $10.02

Charge: $10.02

Balance: $210.02

Attempt to pay $25.00

Payment: $25.00

Balance: $185.02

Attempt to charge $990.00

Exceeds credit limit

Balance: $185.02

Task #4 Take screen shot of output and demo, to copy the focus window use, Ctrl + Alt + PrtSrn and Ctrl + V to paste:

Upon completion this lab, you should have a total 13 files in all:

Address.java, CreditCard.java (you have to create this file), CreditCardDemo.java, Money.java, MoneyDriver.java, Person.java, (six .java files), plus (six .class files), plus this document, total 13 files.

Adress.java

//Defines an address using a street, city, state, and zipcode

public class Address

{

//The street number and street name

private String street;

//The city in which the address is located

private String city;

//The state in which the address is located

private String state;

//The zip code associated with that city and street

private String zip;

//Constructor creates an address using four parameters

//road describes the street number and name

//town describes the city

//st describes the state

//zipCode describes the zip code

public Address(String road, String town, String st, String zipCode)

{

street = road;

city = town;

state = st;

zip = zipCode;

}

//toString method returns information about the address

public String toString()

{

return (street + ", " + city + ", " + state + " " + zip);

}

}

CreditCardDemo.java

//Demonstrates the CreditCard class

public class CreditCardDemo

{

public static void main(String[] args)

{

final Money LIMIT = new Money(1000);

final Money FIRST_AMOUNT = new Money(200);

final Money SECOND_AMOUNT = new Money(10.02);

final Money THIRD_AMOUNT = new Money(25);

final Money FOURTH_AMOUNT = new Money(990);

Person owner = new Person("Christie", "Diane",

new Address("237J Harvey Hall", "Menomonie",

"WI", "54751"));

CreditCard visa = new CreditCard(owner, LIMIT);

System.out.println(visa.getPersonals());

System.out.println("Balance: " + visa.getBalance());

System.out.println("Credit Limit: "

+ visa.getCreditLimit());

System.out.println();

System.out.println("Attempt to charge " + FIRST_AMOUNT);

visa.charge(FIRST_AMOUNT);

System.out.println("Balance: " + visa.getBalance());

System.out.println("Attempt to charge " + SECOND_AMOUNT);

visa.charge(SECOND_AMOUNT);

System.out.println("Balance: " + visa.getBalance());

System.out.println("Attempt to pay " + THIRD_AMOUNT);

visa.payment(THIRD_AMOUNT);

System.out.println("Balance: " + visa.getBalance());

System.out.println("Attempt to charge " + FOURTH_AMOUNT);

visa.charge(FOURTH_AMOUNT);

System.out.println("Balance: " + visa.getBalance());

}

}

Money.java

//Objects represent nonnegative amounts of money

public class Money

{

private long dollars; //A number of dollars

private long cents; //A number of cents

//Constructor creates a Money object using the amount of money in

//dollars and cents represented with a decimal number

public Money(double amount)

{

if (amount < 0)

{

System.out.println(

"Error: Negative amounts of money are not allowed.");

System.exit(0);

}

else

{

long allCents = Math.round(amount*100);

dollars = allCents/100;

cents = allCents%100;

}

}

//Adds the calling Money object to the parameter Money object.

public Money add(Money otherAmount)

{

Money sum = new Money(0);

sum.cents = this.cents + otherAmount.cents;

long carryDollars = sum.cents/100;

sum.cents = sum.cents%100;

sum.dollars = this.dollars

+ otherAmount.dollars + carryDollars;

return sum;

}

//Subtracts the parameter Money object from the calling Money

//object and returns the difference.

public Money subtract (Money amount)

{

Money difference = new Money(0);

if (this.cents < amount.cents)

{

this.dollars = this.dollars - 1;

this.cents = this.cents + 100;

}

difference.dollars = this.dollars - amount.dollars;

difference.cents = this.cents - amount.cents;

return difference;

}

//Compares instance variable of the calling object

//with the parameter object. It returns -1 if the

//dollars and the cents of the calling object are

//less than the dollars and the cents of the parameter

//object, 0 if the dollars and the cents of the calling

//object are equal to the dollars and cents of the

//parameter object, and 1 if the dollars and the cents

//of the calling object are more than the dollars and

//the cents of the parameter object.

public int compareTo(Money amount)

{

int value;

if(this.dollars < amount.dollars)

{

value = -1;

}

else if (this.dollars > amount.dollars)

{

value = 1;

}

else if (this.cents < amount.cents)

{

value = -1;

}

else if (this.cents > amount.cents)

{

value = 1;

}

else

{

value = 0;

}

return value;

}

}

MoneyDriver.java

//This program tests the money class.

public class MoneyDriver

{

//This is a driver for testing the class

public static void main(String[] args)

{

final int BEGINNING = 500;

final Money FIRST_AMOUNT = new Money(10.02);

final Money SECOND_AMOUNT = new Money(10.02);

final Money THIRD_AMOUNT = new Money(10.88);

Money balance = new Money(BEGINNING);

System.out.println("The current amount is " +

balance.toString());

balance = balance.add(SECOND_AMOUNT);

System.out.println("Adding " + SECOND_AMOUNT +

" gives " + balance.toString());

balance = balance.subtract(THIRD_AMOUNT);

System.out.println("Subtracting " + THIRD_AMOUNT +

" gives " + balance.toString());

boolean equal = SECOND_AMOUNT.equals(FIRST_AMOUNT);

if(equal)

System.out.println(SECOND_AMOUNT + " equals "

+ FIRST_AMOUNT);

else

System.out.println(SECOND_AMOUNT +

" does not equal " + FIRST_AMOUNT);

equal = THIRD_AMOUNT.equals(FIRST_AMOUNT);

if(equal)

System.out.println(THIRD_AMOUNT + " equals " +

FIRST_AMOUNT);

else

System.out.println(THIRD_AMOUNT + " does not equal "

+ FIRST_AMOUNT);

}

}

Person.java

//Defines a person by name and address

public class Person

{

//The person's last name

private String lastName;

//The person's first name

private String firstName;

//The person's address

private Address home;

//Constructor creates a person from a last name,

//first name, and address

public Person(String last, String first, Address residence)

{

lastName = last;

firstName = first;

home = residence;

}

//toString method returns information about the person

public String toString()

{

return(firstName + " " + lastName + ", " + home.toString());

}

}