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user1080390
user1080390

Reputation: 471

Searching an ArrayList

I currently have 3 classes, a main class containing a GUI, and the fnameTxtField, a customer class containing the data, and a customerList class which gathers the data from the customer class, and puts it into an array list.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 335

Answers (2)

Mark Peters
Mark Peters

Reputation: 81154

Where you are using fnameTxtField.getText, Java is expecting you to declare a method parameter (kind of like declaring a variable). A parameter is information that your method is told about for one particular execution, instead of having to find out on its own.

So you are right in thinking you want something like this:

public void searchCustomer(String familyName) {
    for (int i = 0; i < customer.returnID(); i++) {
        customer search = search.get(i);
        if (search.returnFamilyName().equals(familyName)) {
            System.out.println("Index: " + i);            
            //removed  return i;
            return;
        }
    }
}

Then at the point of invocation (method call) specify that you want to use the value in your text field:

//...
searchCustomer(fnameTxtField.getText());

Upvotes: 0

Tedil
Tedil

Reputation: 1933

Quick fix: Refactor your method to have the following signature public void searchCustomer(String text) { ... } and call it with searchCustome(fnameTxtField.getText()). Then you could use the variable "text" in your method, so the line

if (search.returnFamilyName().equals(fnameTxtField.getText))

changes to

if (search.returnFamilyName().equals(text))

(Or don't have any parameters at all and add the [probably] missing parentheses to fnameTxtField.getText)

Upvotes: 1

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