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The document provides instructions for an object-oriented programming assignment involving shape comparisons. It describes creating classes to represent different shapes like cylinders, cones, pyramids and prisms. The shapes can be compared based on height, base area or volume using their class attributes and methods. Reflection is introduced as a way to dynamically instantiate shape objects and call their methods without prior knowledge of their types.

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2C Assignment1

The document provides instructions for an object-oriented programming assignment involving shape comparisons. It describes creating classes to represent different shapes like cylinders, cones, pyramids and prisms. The shapes can be compared based on height, base area or volume using their class attributes and methods. Reflection is introduced as a way to dynamically instantiate shape objects and call their methods without prior knowledge of their types.

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Assignment 1

Unit 2
CPRG304 – Object-Oriented
Programming III

Kitty Wong © 2023


Shape Comparisons in Assignment
• Your project should be able to compare using one of 3
criteria:
1. By height – this is just an attribute of the object (using
comparable)
2. By base area – calculated from one or more attributes of the
object (using comparator)
3. By volume – calculated from one or more attributes of the
object (using comparator)

• Formulas for these calculations are given on the last page of


the Assignment specifications pdf
Shapes
• Array[Shape] to store all the objects
• 4 types of shapes:

• 4 different prisms:
Shape Classes
Cylinder Cone Pyramid
double height; double height; double height;
double radius; double radius; double side;
double calcVolume(); double calcVolume(); double calcVolume();
double calcBaseArea(); double calcBaseArea(); double calcBaseArea();

SquarePrism TriangularPrism PentagonalPrism OctagonalPrism


double height; double height; double height; double height;
double side; double side; double side; double side;
double calcVolume(); double calcVolume(); double calcVolume(); double calcVolume();
double calcBaseArea(); double calcBaseArea(); double calcBaseArea(); double calcBaseArea();
Data Modelling in OOP
• Make our code reusable, maintainable and scalable!
Prism Shape
double height; double height;
double side; double calcVolume();
double calcVolume(); double calcBaseArea();
double calcBaseArea();

• Now we have a base class to compare the height!


• Shape implements the Comparable interface
public int compareTo(Shape s){
if ( this.getHeight() > s.getHeight() ) return 1;
else if ( this.getHeight() < s.getHeight() ) return -1;
else return 0;
}
Converting Text to Objects
• How would you read a String from a text file and
instantiate the correct object?
• Hard-code:
if (str.equals(“Cylinder”) {
Cylinder c = new Cylinder();
}
else if (str.equals(“Cone”) {
Cone c = new Cone();
}
else if (str.equals(“Pyramid”) {
Pyramid p = new Pyramid();
}
// etc..
Reflection
• Runtime examination and modification of classes and
their methods
• Doesn’t require prior knowledge of the class and its method
signatures!
• JUnit annotations uses reflection heavily to look at the test
class to find methods, then call them while running tests
• To establish a DB connection
Class.forName(“com.mysql.jdbc.Driver”);

• Note: reflection != introspection


Hello Kitty Example
• Just a regular class and method definition:

public class MyClass


{
public void HelloKitty()
{
System.out.println(“Hello Kitty!”);
}
}
Making more Kitties
• Normal instantiation and invocation:
MyClass mc = new MyClass();
mc.HelloKitty();

• With reflection:
Class reflected = Class.forName(“MyClass”);
Object o = reflected.newInstance();
Method m = o.getMethod(“HelloKitty”);
m.invoke();

• Why? Looks like a lot of work for the same thing!


The Power of Reflection
• What if you didn’t know the class/method names?

String s1;
String s2;
// now grab the values of s1 and s2 from another
// part of the system at runtime! E.g. user input,
// file, database, network, etc.
Class reflected = Class.forName(s1);
Object o = reflected.newInstance();
Method m = o.getMethod(s2);
m.invoke();

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