Super Class method

[Gina Ruffolo-Daniel]

I am trying to print the both the super and subclass methods at the end of my progam. I am just getting subclass data returned.

Super Class

 import javax.swing.*;
public class Person
{
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String address;
private String zip;
private String phone;

public void setPerson()
{
firstName = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Please enter first name:");
lastName = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter last name:");
address = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter street address:");
zip = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Please enter zip code: ");
phone = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Please enter phone number: ");
}

public String getPerson()
{
String Result;
Result = "Name: " + firstName + lastName + "\nStreet address: " + address +
"Zip Code: " + zip + "\nPhone number: " + phone;
return Result;

}
 
}

Sub class

 import javax.swing.*;
public class Student extends Person
{
private String Major;
private String gpa;

public void setStudent()
   {
  super.setPerson();
  Major = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter Major:");
  gpa = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter GPA: ");
   }
   
   public String getStudent()
   {
 super.getPerson();
 String Result1;
 Result1 = "Major: " + Major + " GPA: " + gpa;
 return Result1;
    
   }
 
} 

Print Line

          while (userSelection.charAt(0) == 'Q')
         {
         System.out.println(newStudent.getStudent());
         break;
         } 

Thank you for any help in advance,
Gina

[Raghuveer Kumarakrishnan]

Gina ,

Take a look at this method ,your code gets the superclass info allright but what do you with it?? You just return the subclass info in the method. I hope this helped. If not come back ,we are glad to help

 public String getStudent(){
 super.getPerson();
 String Result1;
 Result1 = "Major: " + Major + " GPA: " + gpa;
                 return Result1;
       } 

[ October 17, 2005: Message edited by: Raghu Kumar ]

[Gina Ruffolo-Daniel]

Just to make sure I am understanding correctly: I need to add the info retrieved from Super.getPerson(); to my return statement. How is that done with one return statement? is it Resultreturn Result,Result1?

[Gina Ruffolo-Daniel]

I think I got it...

 public String getStudent()
       {
   String Result1;
   Result1 = super.getPerson() + "\nMajor: " + Major + "  GPA: " 
                     + gpa;
   return Result1;
    
 }
  

[Andyjr Robinson]

Gina.

Can't you concatenate it into a single string like you are doing elsewhere within your code ??

[Andyjr Robinson]

I think you got it !!

But you can do it in a slightly shorter way:

public String getStudent() {
return super.getPerson() + "\nMajor: " + Major + " GPA: " + gpa;
}

And for efficiency you might like to look into The StringBuffer object !!!

[Gina Ruffolo-Daniel]

I think I got it...

 public String getStudent()
       {
   String Result1;
   Result1 = super.getPerson() + "\nMajor: " + Major + "  GPA: " 
                     + gpa;
   return Result1;
    
 }