Question

In this simple example, i want to create a String array populated with each person’s first and last in my DB. I know i am missing something very obvious as i keep overriding i in the following looping method. A second eye would certainly help.

    /**
 * 
 * @return
 */
public String[] buildFullNameContainer(){

    List<Person> allPeople = Person.findAllPeople();
    String[] peopleContainer = new String[] {""};
    String fullName = "";



        for (int i = 0; i < peopleContainer.length; i++) {
            for (Person person : allPeople) {
                fullName = person.getFirstName() + " " + person.getLastName();  
                peopleContainer[i] = fullName; 

            }
        }
    return peopleContainer;
}

Answer 1

Replace

String[] peopleContainer = new String[] {""};

with

String[] peopleContainer = new String[allPeople.size()];

---

Also, edit your loop as follows:

for(int i = 0; i < peopleContainer.length; i++)
{
    Person person = allPeople.get(i);
    fullName = person.getFirstName() + " " + person.getLastName();  
    peopleContainer[i] = fullName;  
}