Package eu.kartoffelquadrat.zoo

Class Animal

java.lang.Object

eu.kartoffelquadrat.zoo.Animal

public class Animal
extends Object

Animal bean stores read only attributes of an immutable animal object and provides public getter access.

Author:

Maximilian Schiedermeier

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Animal(String species, int age, String favouriteFood)	Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	getAge()	Getter for the animals age in years.
String	getFavouriteFood()	Getter for the animals favourite food.
String	getSpecies()	Getter for the animals species.
String	toString()	Custom toString method for convenient string representation of animal object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

Animal

public Animal(String species,
 int age,
 String favouriteFood)

Constructor. Requires final values for animals species, age and food.

Parameters:

species - as the animals species.

age - as the animals age in years.

favouriteFood - as the animals preferred meal.

Method Details

getSpecies

public String getSpecies()

Getter for the animals species.

Returns:

the animals species as String.

getAge

public int getAge()

Getter for the animals age in years.

Returns:

the animals age in years.

getFavouriteFood

public String getFavouriteFood()

Getter for the animals favourite food.

Returns:

the animals favourite food as String.

toString

public String toString()

Custom toString method for convenient string representation of animal object.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

all field information of this animal object formatted as human readable string.