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Uttara Infosolutions: Collections Practicals 1

This document provides instructions for completing 5 collections practical exercises using Java: 1. Compare two strings using == and .equals() and override equals() in a Person class. 2. Create a Person class with name and height, create objects, and override equals() and toString() to correctly compare objects and print references. 3. Add strings to an ArrayList and test adding, searching, removing, size, iteration, and printing. Then test a LinkedList and HashSet. 4. Add Person objects to an ArrayList and verify addition, search and removal works as expected by overriding equals() in Person. 5. Create Address and Employee classes with equals(), create employee objects, and verify objects are

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Uttara Infosolutions: Collections Practicals 1

This document provides instructions for completing 5 collections practical exercises using Java: 1. Compare two strings using == and .equals() and override equals() in a Person class. 2. Create a Person class with name and height, create objects, and override equals() and toString() to correctly compare objects and print references. 3. Add strings to an ArrayList and test adding, searching, removing, size, iteration, and printing. Then test a LinkedList and HashSet. 4. Add Person objects to an ArrayList and verify addition, search and removal works as expected by overriding equals() in Person. 5. Create Address and Employee classes with equals(), create employee objects, and verify objects are

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Collections Practicals 1
Note: Ex code has been given to you. You can go through that first to
understand the way collections methods work and then start with this lab
document.
1) WAP to compare 2 strings by == and .equals() and test whether
Strings .equals() works correctly. Which equals() implementation is getting
picked up?
2) Code a Person class. Create 2 instance variables, one String name and
one int height. Create a parameterized constructor. Create a tester class,
create 2 person objects and compare the two using object identity check
and object equality checks:
Person p1 = new Person("Ramu",20);
Person p2 = new Person("Ramu",20);
System.out.println("identity check = "+(p1==p2));
System.out.println("equality = "+(p1.equals(p2)));
Check what is printed and why? Now in Person class, override equals() as
discussed. Check the test class execution and observe the output.
Now in main(), print the reference of p1 and see what is shown to the
monitor as output. Then override toString() in Person. Re-execute the
main() and see if the printing of reference has changed.
How to override equals()?
public boolean equals(Object o)
{
// do instanceof check for checking if o is a Person, else return false
// Create new Person reference and point to o by down casting
// Compare the state of this person object with passed person object.
// If the state is given by primitives, use ==, if it is reference,
//use .equals().
}
Have you understood why and how we should override equals()?
How to override toString()
public String toString()
{
return “Person:”+name+”,”+age;
}
3) (See TestCollMethods.java for reference) Create a TestCollections class
with main(). Create an ArrayList object like this:
Collection col = new ArrayList(); //import package java.util.*;
now invoke basic methods on col collection to test adding, searching,
removing, getting the size, iteration and printing the contents. First add 5-6
strings in ArrayList. Check if add is successful. Add duplicates. SOP the
collection ref. Check whether duplicates are allowed. Create a new String
object with same state as another and check if contains works on
collection. Add many duplicates and try to remove all occurrences.
Methods to be used and tested are:
Collection
- add(Object o)
- contains(Object o)
- size()
- remove(Object o)
- clear()
- isEmpty()
- addAll(Collection c)
- removeAll(Collection c)
- retainAll(Collection c)
//to iterate and print contents
for(Object o : col)
{
System.out.println(o);
}
System.out.println(col); //directly print contents without iterating!
Change ArrayList to LinkedList and see if you get any difference in the
methods working. Then change it to HashSet and check.
Create 2 collections with strings and then invoke addAll(), retainAll() and
removeAll() and verify if you understand how the methods work.
4) After checking how collections work with strings, create Person objects
and add them to a new ArrayList. Verify if addition, search, removal works
correctly. Put SOPs in equals() in Person class and verify if it is being
called when you search/remove.
5) Create an Employee class. An Employee has a name, email, dob, home
address and office address. An Address has city, street, pin, zip. Create
Address and Employee classes, override equals() in both (with SOPs) and
then check by creating 2 employee objects with state and verify if they are
equal or not.

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