Question

I’m making an employee store. The delete function in the employeeStore does not work. Instead of deleting the employee it does nothing can anyone see anything wrong.

Here is my code:
Main

case 3:
                System.out.println("Delete by Name.");
                Employee employeeDelete = MenuMethods.userInputByName();
                Store.searchByName(employeeDelete.getEmployeeName());
                System.out.println("Your choice is: "+ employeeDelete);
                Store.remove(employeeDelete);
                break;

Delete method

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name: Remove.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
public Employee remove(Employee key) {
    // Remove the Employee by name.
    if (map.containsKey(key))
        return map.remove(key); // if its there remove and return
    else
        return null; // if its not there return 0x00000000 address
}

Menu methods

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:           Imports.
//  Description:    To allow the use of different Java classes.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
import java.util.Scanner;
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
public class MenuMethods 
{
    private static Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Methods for the Company Application menu.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:           getMenuChoice.
//  Description:    Method for validating the choice.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static int getMenuChoice(String menuString, int limit,String prompt, String errorMessage) 
    {
        System.out.println(menuString);
        int choice = inputAndValidateInt(1, limit, prompt, errorMessage);
        return choice;
    }

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:        inputAndValidateInt.
//  Description: This method is used in the getMenuChoice method.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static int inputAndValidateInt(int min, int max, String prompt,String errorMessage) 
    {
        int number;
        boolean valid;
        do 
        {
            System.out.print(prompt);
            number = keyboard.nextInt();
            valid = number <= max && number >= min;
            if (!valid) 
            {
                System.out.println(errorMessage);
            }
        } while (!valid);
        return number;
    }

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:        userInput
//  Description: This method is used in the MainApp to give the user capability to enter
//               the details when adding details of an employee into the store.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static Employee userInput() 
    {
        String temp = keyboard.nextLine();
        Employee e = null;
        System.out.println("Please enter the Employee Name:");
        String employeeName = keyboard.nextLine();
        System.out.println("Please enter the Employee ID:");
        int employeeId = keyboard.nextInt();
        temp = keyboard.nextLine();
        System.out.println("Please enter the Employee E-mail address:");
        String employeeEmail = keyboard.nextLine();
        return e = new Employee(employeeName, employeeId, employeeEmail);

    }

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:        userInputByName.
//  Description: This method is used in the MainApp to give the user capability to search by name.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static Employee userInputByName() 
    {
        // String temp is for some reason needed. If it is not included
        // The code will not execute properly.
        String temp = keyboard.nextLine();
        Employee e = null;
        System.out.println("Please enter the Employee Name:");
        String employeeName = keyboard.nextLine();

        return e = new Employee(employeeName);

    }

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:        userInputByEmail
//  Description: This method is used in the MainApp to give the user capability to search by email.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static String userInputByEmail() 
    {
        // String temp is for some reason needed. If it is not included
        // The code will not execute properly.
        String temp = keyboard.nextLine();
        Employee e = null;
        System.out.println("Please enter the Employee Email:");
        String employeeEmail = keyboard.nextLine();
        // This can use the employeeName's constructor because java accepts the
        // parameters instead
        // of the name's.
        return employeeEmail;

    }
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

}

Employee

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Employee class.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
public class Employee
{
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Variables to be used in the employee store.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    private String employeeName;
    private int employeeId;
    private String employeeEmail;
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:        Constructors.
//  Description:
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public Employee(String employeeName, int employeeId, String employeeEmail) 
    {
        this.employeeName = employeeName;
        this.employeeId = employeeId;
        this.employeeEmail = employeeEmail;
    }
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Overloading the constructor for the use with userInputByName method.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public Employee(String employeeName) 
    {
        this.employeeName = employeeName;
    }
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:   Getters.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public String getEmployeeEmail() 
    {
        return employeeEmail;
    }

    public String getEmployeeName() 
    {
        return employeeName;
    }
    public int getEmployeeId() 
    {
        return employeeId;
    }
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:   Setters.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public void setEmployeeEmail(String employeeEmail) 
    {
        this.employeeEmail = employeeEmail;
    }
    public void setEmployeeName(String employeeName) 
    {
        this.employeeName = employeeName;
    }
    public void setEmployeeId(int employeeId)
    {
        this.employeeId = employeeId;
    }

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Name:   toString.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public String toString() 
    {
        return "\t\t\tEmployee\n" +
                "********************************************************************\n"+
                "Employee Name: "+ employeeName +"\n"+ 
                "Employee Id: " + employeeId +"\n"+  
                "Employee Email: " + employeeEmail;
    }
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
}

Answer 1

This method

public static Employee userInputByName

is creating a new Employee. (It’s also assigning it to a local variable pointlessly… the code style is really weird here – as is the extraneous call to nextLine().)

Unless you’ve overridden equals and hashCode in Employee, it won’t consider that new Employee object to be equal to the existing one within the HashMap. Unfortunately you haven’t shown us the Employee class, but presumably it’s meant to compare employees as equal (and give the same hash code) if they have the same name.