Question

I have two classes. The first is complete and it is making an Item object:

public class Item {

private String name; // The Name of the item.
private int unitPrice; // The price of each unit of this item, in cents.
private int quantity; // The number of units of this item.

// CONSTRUCTOR

/*
 * Constructs an item with specified name, price, and quantity.
 */
public Item(String name, int unitPrice, int quantity) {
    this.name = name;
    this.unitPrice = unitPrice;
    this.quantity = quantity;
}

// METHODS

/*
 * Gets the name for the item. Returns the name for this item.
 */
public String getName() {
    return name;
}

/*
 * Gets the price of each unit of a given item, in cents. Return the price.
 */
public int getUnitPrice() {
    return unitPrice;
}

/*
 * Gets and returns the number of units of this item.
 */
public int getQuantity() {
    return quantity;
}

/*
 * Increases or decreases the quantity of this item. If value is positive,
 * quantity increases. If negative, quantity decreases.
 */
public void changeQuantity(int value) {
    quantity = quantity + value;
}

/*
 * Gets the total price, in cents. Returns the productof quantity and
 * unitPrice as the total price of this item.
 */
public int getTotalPrice() {
    return quantity * unitPrice;
}

/*
 * Returns a string of this item, including name, price($)
 */
public String toString() {
    return name + ": " + quantity + " ($" + unitPrice / 100 + "."
            + unitPrice % 100 + " per unit)";
}

}

Now, I am trying to do a findItem method, where i search through. Not exactly sure how to do it. I would like to go through all of the inventory and try to match the name. I believe I should use getName() but not sure how to go through each name.

public class Store {
private ArrayList<Item> inventory;

//MOTHODS

/*
 * Finds an item by its name if it is part of the store's inventory
 * Name is case-insensitive
 * Returns the Item object corresponding to the given name if the item was found. If an item with the given name was not found, then this method returns null.
 */
public Item findItem(String name){
    for(int i=0; i<inventory.size();i++){
        if(name.toUpperCase().equals(?????))
    }
}

}

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Why not use a for-each loop?

public Item findItem(String name)
{
    for(Item item : inventory)
    {
        if(item.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(name))
        {
            return item;
        }
    }

    return null;
}