Question

I’m having a problem with this home work assignment. I can handle the syntax, but not the logic. Could you provide me some tips.

What I’m trying to achieve is that the add method would increase the amount of products by using the increaseAmount method. Now it resets the value of amount to “1” every time I call the method. What makes this complicated is that I’m not allowed to use any other private variables than already used.

private Map<String, Purchase> shoppingCart = new HashMap<String, Purchase>();

public void add (String product, int price) {
        Purchase purchase = new Purchase (product, 1, price); 
                  //the line abowe returns the value back to 1 which I don't want.

        if(shoppingCart.containsKey(product)) {

            shoppingCart.put(product, purchase);
                purchase.increaseAmount();

        }
        else {
             shoppingCart.put(product, purchase);

The product constructor:

public Ostos(String product, int amount, int price) {

Code for the increaseAmount method:

private int amount;

public void increaseAmount() {
    this.amount = (this.amount + 1);

Answer 1

Don’t create a new purchase at the beginning only create it if it’s not already there

public void add (String product, int price) {

        if(shoppingCart.containsKey(product)) {
            Purchase purchase = shoppingCart.get(product);
            purchase.increaseAmount();
            //You might have to put the purchase back into the cart I'm not sure
        }
        else {
             Purchase purchase = new Purchase (product, 1, price);
             shoppingCart.put(product, purchase);
        }