Question

I have a Java Class like this:

public class Employee {
  String Name;
  int Id;
  int Age;

  void setName(String tempVal) {
    Name = tempVal;
    System.out.println(Name);
    System.out.println("\n");
  }

  void setId(int parseInt) {
    Id = parseInt;
    System.out.println(Id);
    System.out.println("\n");
  }

  void setAge(int parseInt) {
    Age = parseInt;
    System.out.println(Age);
    System.out.println("\n");
  }

}

Now I want to parse a employees.xml file using SAXParser using the code in the link: http://totheriver.com/learn/xml/xmltutorial.html#5.2

The problem is when I am adding the tempEmp to the list and accessing the list to print its value in printData() method, the output is something like:

No of Employees '3'.

Employee@140de537

Employee@1c43882a

Employee@15a08be5

Now, how do I extract the name, age and id of the employee individually?

Answer 1

I guess you are adding the Employee object to the list and printing the objects directly from list.If you dont override the toString() method, it will call the toString() method of Object class(superclass of all class), which will be returing the classname@hashcode(hashcode of object).If you want to print some data from your class, you need to override toString() method in your class and return the format you require.