using a getter to retrieve different parameters

[Ben Hultin]

I am creating a program where I need to pass different parameters into a single getter and have it print out different valaues based on the paramter.

So far I have one string which I used substrings to divide the string into different chunks then convert them to ints. so now I need to assign these different ints to paramter numbers which would be passed through to the getter for printing.

   
public IpAddress(String ip) {
	
		this.ipAddress = ip;
	
		octet1Str = ipAddress.substring(0,2); 
		octet2Str = ipAddress.substring(4,5);
		octet3Str = ipAddress.substring(7);
		octet4Str = ipAddress.substring(9,11);
		
		int octet1 = Integer.parseInt(octet1Str);
		int octet2 = Integer.parseInt(octet2Str);
		int octet3 = Integer.parseInt(octet3Str);
		int octet4 = Integer.parseInt(octet4Str);
		
	}
 

this is how the different values would be passed into the getter:

  
System.out.println(ip.getOctet(4));

  System.out.println(ip.getOctet(1));

  System.out.println(ip.getOctet(3));

  System.out.println(ip.getOctet(2));

  

Any suggestions on how I could accomplish this?

Thanks a lot for the help

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Ben Hultin wrote:

   
public IpAddress(String ip) {
	
		this.ipAddress = ip;
	
		octet1Str = ipAddress.substring(0,2); 
		octet2Str = ipAddress.substring(4,5);
		octet3Str = ipAddress.substring(7);
		octet4Str = ipAddress.substring(9,11);
		
		int octet1 = Integer.parseInt(octet1Str);
		int octet2 = Integer.parseInt(octet2Str);
		int octet3 = Integer.parseInt(octet3Str);
		int octet4 = Integer.parseInt(octet4Str);
		
	}
 

i Assume IpAddress is a Constructor .

there are 2 ways to accomplish this task.
one way is provide getter/setter for octet1,octet2,octet3,octet4 . an another way is wrap the values into a single int Array and provide getter/setter .

Hope this helps

[Bear Bibeault]

By the way, if you're passing a parameter into a "getter", then by definition, it isn't a "getter".

(Unless you start contemplating indexed properties -- but there are strict rules that must be followed there as well.)