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Wrapper Classes

About the wrapper class

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Wrapper Classes for

Primitive Types in Java


Primitive Data Types
Include...
byte, short, int, long, float, double
char
boolean

Q. Why aren’t these objects?


A. Efficiency (avoid “object overhead”)

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Wrapper Classes
...but sometimes it would be useful to have objects
hold primitive data.

Example
To include different primitive data types in a single Object[] array.

Wrapper Classes
– Classes for “wrapping” primitive data in objects.
– All override the Object methods toString, equals, and hashCode.
– All wrapper classes (except for Boolean) implement the
Comparable interface (implement compareTo())

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UML Class Diagram for Wrapper Classes

NOTE: all wrapper classes capitalize the name of the


associated primitive type, except for Integer and Character.

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Example: Constructing Wrapped
Numbers
Double doubleObject = new Double(5.0);
Double doubleObject = new Double(“5.0”);
Double doubleObject = Double.valueOf(“12.4”)

Integer intObject = new Integer(5);


Integer intObject = new Integer(“5”);
Integer intObject = Integer.valueOf(“12”);

NOTE: valueOf is a static method defined for all numeric


wrapper classes.

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Converting Between Strings and
Primitive Numeric Types
Converting to String
Double doubleObject = new Double(5.0);
String s = doubleObject.toString();

Converting from String


double d = Double.parseDouble(“5.0”);
int i = Integer.parseInt(“5”);
// Using ‘parse’ method with a radix (base):
int j = Integer.parseInt(“11”, 2); // j=3 (in base 10!)

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Example: A Polymorphic (“Generic”)
Sorting Method
Text Example, GenericSort.java
(implementation of Selection Sort: iteratively finds largest
element, places it at the end of the array)
• Using the Comparable interface (compareTo()),
different object types are sorted using the same sorting
method; each class defines how objects of the class
should be ordered.

• NOTE: Java defines a static sort in the Arrays class, for


any array of objects implementing Comparable
• e.g. Arrays.sort(intArray);

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Automatic Conversion Between Primitive
and Wrapper Class Types
‘Boxing’
Converting primitive → wrapper
e.g. Integer[ ] intArray = {1, 2, 3};
e.g. Integer intObject = 2; // both legal, ‘autoboxing’ occurs

‘Unboxing’
Converting wrapper → primitive
e.g. System.out.println(intArray[0] + intArray[1] + intArray[2]);
// int values are summed before output.
e.g. int i = new Integer(3); // legal, ‘autounboxing occurs’

Automatic Conversions
– Compiler will box for contexts requiring an object
– Compiler will unbox for contexts requiring a primitive
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