printing an arrayList

[Shaggy Rogers]

I'm trying to print the arrayList D = new ArrayList<DequeInterface<Disk>>();
using the following method:

void display(){

Iterator listIterator = D.iterator();
while(listIterator.hasNext())
{
Disk printDisk =(Disk) listIterator.next();
System.out.println(printDisk);
}

}

However, I this prints nothing at all, and previously I was just printing memory locations. Thanks for the help.

[Rusty Shackleford]

The addresses that were printed were because of the toString() method in Object. What did you put in the overriden toString method in Disk?

[Shaggy Rogers]

Now I'm trying something like
int arrayListSize = D.size();
for(int i = 0; i < arrayListSize; i++)
{
System.out.println(D.get(i));
}
}
but this is doing the same thing, printing memory locations.

[Shaggy Rogers]

My toString() looks like this:

public String toString()
{
String result = "The number stored is" + number;
return result;
}

[Jesper de Jong]

"...printing memory locations..."

No, what you see after the @ is not a memory location, it's the hashcode of the object you're printing (in hexadecimal form).

You have an ArrayList that contains DequeInterfaces that contain Disks. If you loop through the ArrayList, you are looping through the DequeInterfaces. I guess the toString() method you gave is for class Disk. This code from your post above:

int arrayListSize = D.size();
for(int i = 0; i < arrayListSize; i++)
{
  System.out.println(D.get(i));
}

prints DequeInterfaces, not Disks.