CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
Robert
Robert

Reputation: 1

How to input this method for calculating cost

I am writing a class for a program where now I need to add a method for coming up with a late fee cost. This is between movie genre's with each genre costing something different but for the one I will use here will be the Drama genre which has the default late fee (That variable is in a different class, also the dayLate variable is in another class as well)

Anyway what I need to do is make it so that the method adds it up like the number of days late multiplied by the fee. Right now I have this but I get a compiler error (Also if it matters, the class with the dayLate variable is not yet finished or compiled)

Anyway here is the Drama class source code

class Drama extends Movie
{
    public Drama()
    {
        super();
    }
    public Drama(String rating, int IDnumber, String MovieTitle)
    {
        super(rating, IDnumber, MovieTitle);
    }
    public double CalcLateFees(Fee * dayLate);
}

I don't think I did this method correct though.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 689

Answers (4)

J.S. Taylor
J.S. Taylor

Reputation: 761

switch (yourChoice) {

case 1: Implement your CalclateFees method some how:

public double CalcLateFees(Fee dayLate) {
   double fee = 0;
   ....
   return fee;
}

case 2: Declare your CalclateFees method as abstract:

public abstract double CalcLateFees(Fee  dayLate);

case 3: Let the Fee class handle the caculation:

public double CalcLateFees(Fee  dayLate) {
    return dayLate.calc(this);
}

}

Upvotes: 0

Adam Dymitruk
Adam Dymitruk

Reputation: 129564

Favor composition over inheritance. Try having a genre property in the movie class. The genre class can hold a fee member.

Upvotes: 0

GuruKulki
GuruKulki

Reputation: 26418

You cannot write your logic in the method's prototype, instead you should receive the values as the parameter and do the logic and return the values like below:

public double CalcLateFees(double fee, double dayLate) {

return (fee * dayLate);

}

Upvotes: 1

Jigar Joshi
Jigar Joshi

Reputation: 240900

Java doesn't use pointer just uses reference

So change this 

public double CalcLateFees(Fee * dayLate);

to

public double CalcLateFees(Fee  dayLate);

Also make sure Movie class has default const and const with (String rating, int IDnumber, String MovieTitle) arguments

Upvotes: 0

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