Question

I have this code which gets info from an other class but I have to add another line other code for every instance object.

public static int giveShipData(String shipName,int Data){
    if(shipName.equals("Player")){i = Player.getData(Data);}
    return i;
}

Is it possible to have something like:

public static int giveShipData(String shipName,int Data){
    i = shipName.getData(Data);
    return i;
}

Sorry if I am using the wrong terminology I am self taught and new.

Answer 1

I think you’d better to reconsider your design. If you have a ship name and ship data I assume you must have a Ship class which looks something like this:

public class Ship {
    private String name;
    private int data;

    public Ship(String name, int data) {
        this.name = name;
        this.data = data;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public int getData() {
        return data;
    }
}

Besides this class there should be a class like Shipyard:

 public class Shipyard {
    private Map<String, Ship> shipsByNameMap = new HashMap<String, Ship>();

    public void registerShipByName(String name, Ship ship){
        shipsByNameMap.put(name, ship);
    }

    public Ship getShipByName(String name){
        return shipsByNameMap.get(name);
    }
}

So, at first you invoke shipyard.getShip(“Player”) method to get ship object, than you can invoke ship.getData() method to retrieve ship data.