Stack Overflow Asked by Arjun Singh on November 18, 2021
I have an assignment that asks me to create a Data Class as a "Node Center" for all my other classes, such as a class for LinkedList, Stack, & Queue to "feed" on. I’m creating constructors in the Data class to work on the LinkedList, Stack, & Queue classes. I wasn’t having any problems until I implemented my constructor for my Queue. In my Stack portion of the Data class, I had already created a public Data constructor with an int as my parameter in the constructor. When I try to create another public Data constructor with an int as my parameter for the Queue, I get the error: Data(int) is already defined in Data. Here is my Stack code:
/*
STACK WITH AN ARRAY
*/
int size; //initialize size
int stackArray[]; //initialize array
int top; //initialize top
public Data(int size) //constructor
{
this.size = size;
this.stackArray = new int[size];
this.top = -1;
}
And here is my Queue code:
/*
QUEUE WITH AN ARRAY
*/
public int Queue[]; //establish queue array and variables
public int front;
public int rear;
public int queueSize;
public int len;
public Data(int nQueue)//constructor
{
size =nQueue;
len = 0;
Queue = new int[size];
front = -1;
rear = -1;
}
How do I fix this so I can have 2 constructors with the same parameter type?
You cannot create two constructor having same number of parameters in the list and their types. What you can do is create sub classes for Queue and Stack and define constructor for each of them in respective sub classes.
Answered by Rushabh Agarwal on November 18, 2021
It's not possible to have same name and same signature for two methods or constructors.
In your case if you call new Data(10)
to create an instance of Data
the compiler won't know which constructor to call to create the instance.
You can have a second boolean
argument to mention what kind of instance to be created.
public Data(int size, boolean isQueue)//constructor
{
if(isQueue){
len = 0;
Queue = new int[size];
front = -1;
rear = -1;
}else{
this.size = size;
this.stackArray = new int[size];
this.top = -1;
}
}
Answered by Karthikeyan Vaithilingam on November 18, 2021
They are both constructors of type int. Java doesn't care about what you name the int argument, so they look like the same constructor (at least to java). Since you cannot have two constructors with the same arguments, you have two options.
Either of these will allow the jvm to tell the difference between your two constructors.
Answered by bdehmer on November 18, 2021
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