Re: Inner class and interface question (I posted some really long
code)
On 12/27/11 10:29 PM, Chad wrote:
I'm want to put the getHead() method in the BagInterface. However, I
can't do this because the compiler keeps saying it can't find 'class
Node' in Location BagInterface<T>. I guess this is because Node is an
inner class of my LinkedList class. Ideas how to fix this? Ideally I
want to preserve the inner class. Below is the complete working code
in question.
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
BagInterface<Integer> list = new LinkedList<Integer>();
list.add(new Integer(1));
list.add(new Integer(2));
list.add(new Integer(100));
list.add(new Integer(100));
list.add(new Integer(100));
list.add(new Integer(100));
list.add(new Integer(99));
list.add(new Integer(11));
list.printMe();
//System.out.println("The sum is " +
list.sumMe(list.getHead()));
}//end main
}
interface BagInterface<T> {
public void add(T newData);
public void printMe();
public Node getHead(); //<---Problem Line
}
[snip]
Node is specific to LinkedList, and doesn't belong in Bag. As a matter
of fact, "getHead()" doesn't make sense in Bag at all, and on top of
that, exposing "Node" out of a collection class seems to me to be a very
bad leaking of encapsulation
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