I have a problem accessing the arraylist I created in a class. I tried going through the answers of questions similar to mine but unfortunately I was unable to solve the problem.
So I have two classes Student and Person and I want to iterate through the arraylist of Person in the class Student. (The code doesn't really make sense, I know. I just want to understand).
I tried two approaches :
1) creating a variable of type Person in Student class and calling the get method from person class.
2) creating a get method in the class person that returns arraylist. Both are not working properly when i tried to call the isHere method in the main method.(false was printed instead of true)
I think my two approaches intialise a new array of type Person and not call the arraylist to which elements are already added. How can solve this?
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Student {
private Person p;
private String name;
private int age;
private String address;
public Student() {
}
public Student(String name, int age, String address) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
this.address = address;
}
public boolean isHere(String name) {
p = new Person();
// I also tried for(Person per : p.getList)
for (Person per : this.getL()) {
if (per.getName().equals(name)) {
System.out.println("hi");
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
public ArrayList<Person> getL() {
return p.getList();
}
public Person getP() {
return p;
}
public void setP(Person p) {
this.p = p;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
public String getAddress() {
return address;
}
public void setAddress(String address) {
this.address = address;
}
}
The Person class:
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Person {
private String name;
private ArrayList<Person> list = new ArrayList<Person>();
Person() {
}
public Person(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public ArrayList<Person> getList() {
return list;
}
public void setList(ArrayList<Person> list) {
this.list = list;
}
public void add(String name) {
list.add(new Person(name));
}
}
p = new Person();from the isHere method and set the person with yourpublic void setP(Person p)method before calling isHere.