getClass() from another class

[Matthew Peters]

Hi all. Great to see a greenhorn friendly java site! So many forums seem to neglect the beginners...

Anyway, my problem is this:
- I need to return Customer from Bank where Customer is another class
- I then need to access a toString() method within Customer (eg Bank.getCustomer().toString();)

public class Bank
{
...
public Customer getCustomer()
{
return ???;
}
...
}

public class Customer
{
...
public String toString()
{
...
return sbuilder.toString();
}
}

Any help would be much appreciated! Cheers. Ollie

[Henry Wong]

public Customer getCustomer() 
{ 
    return ?????; 
} 

Well, that is completely up to you -- it's your application. Are you returning a favorite customer? Are you returning the last customer that came into the bank? Are you returning the customer based on a transaction? or a session that the caller is holding? etc. It's purely an implementation detail.

Now, of course, you can also do this.

return new Customer();

But I highly doubt you want that... Banks shouldn't be able to just create a customer, so it won't make sense for your program to do that...

Henry

[Matthew Peters]

I actually just want to return the customer (this is a very simple model at this stage)... doesn't have to be a favorite or last customer...

Any clues on how to do this?

[Campbell Ritchie]

ollie monch wrote:Any clues on how to do this?

Read Henry Wong's post on this thread.