Inheritance problem #2

[SpottyBlue]

I was practising the past year question just now. I wanted the program to show this:

Continent name: Australia
Number of Countries: 1
Country name: Australia
Population: 22118256

But my code makes the program to show the first 2 lines.

package jan2012q5b;

import java.util.*;

class Continent
{
    protected String continentName;
    protected int countriesNo;

    public Continent()
    {
        continentName = "??";
        countriesNo = 0;
    }

    public Continent(String continentName, int countriesNo) {
        this.continentName = continentName;
        this.countriesNo = countriesNo;
    }

    public String getContinentName() {
        return continentName;
    }

    public void setContinentName(String continentName) {
        this.continentName = continentName;
    }

    public int getCountriesNo() {
        return countriesNo;
    }

    public void setCountriesNo(int countriesNo) {
        this.countriesNo = countriesNo;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return "Continent name: " + continentName + "\n" +
                "Number of countries: " + countriesNo + "\n";
    }
}

class Country extends Continent
{
    private String countryName;
    private int population;

    public Country()
    {
        countryName = "???";
        population = 0;
    }

    public Country(String countryName, int population)
    {
        this.countryName = countryName;
        this.population = population;
    }

    public String getCountryName() {
        return countryName;
    }

    public void setCountryName(String countryName) {
        this.countryName = countryName;
    }

    public int getPopulation() {
        return population;
    }

    public void setPopulation(int population) {
        this.population = population;
    }

    public Country(String count_name, int p, String continentName, int countriesNo)
    {
        super(continentName, countriesNo);
        countryName = count_name;
        population = p;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return "Country name: " + countryName + "\n" +
               "Population: " + population;
    }
}

public class Jan2012q5b 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

        Country cnt;
        cnt = new Country ("Australia", 1, "Australia", 22118256);

        System.out.println(cnt.toString());
    }

}

[JamesCherrill]

Your subclass overrides the superclass's toString() so that doesn't get executed. You could do something like

public String toString() {
  return super.toString() + "\n Country name: " + countryName + "\n" +
         "Population: " + population;
}

ps: I guess you realise that a Country is NOT a subclass of Continent in the real world. The relationship is Continent has-a Country, not Country is-a Continent

[SpottyBlue]

It works, but it shows the number of countries as 22118256 and population as 1.

[JamesCherrill]

OK, so you have the data the other way round from how the constructor is defined!