Question

I have code that looks like this:

public Flight{
String code;
char status;
char type;

   Flight(String code, char status, char type){
    this.code = code;
    this.status = status;
    this.type = type;
   }
 }


public Menu{
 Flight flight1 = new Flight("DL123",'A','D');
 Flight flight2 = new Flight("DL146",'A','I');
 flightMap.put("DL123", flight1)
 flightMap.put("DL146", flight2)
 }


  if(schedule.flightMap.containsKey(decision))
  {

  }

If the user enters DL123 and containsKey returns true, I want to return only flight1’s object attributes. How would I be able to do this? I’ve tried overwriting toString but because toString can only return as a String, I don’t know how I’d return the status and type attributes which are characters.

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Answer 1

Define getter methods in Flight class and then:

 if(schedule.flightMap.containsKey(decision)){
   Fligth matchingFlight = schedule.flightMap.get(decision);
   String code = matchingFlight.getCode();
   char status = matchingFlight.getStatus();
   char type = matchingFlight.getType();
 }