stockportfolio
Class StockBlock

java.lang.Object
  stockportfolio.AbsStockBlock
      stockportfolio.StockBlock

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable, IStockBlock

public class StockBlock

extends AbsStockBlock

implements java.lang.Comparable

A concrete stock block. CHANGE THIS CLASS TO OVERRIDE THE compareTo method. See JavaDoc for the Object class for information about compareTo. See the Portfolio definition (method getBlocksOwned) to see what the ordering between two blocks should be. Note: you are not required to use the AbsStockBlock provided; it is intended as a time-saver.

Constructor Summary

StockBlock(java.lang.String stock, java.util.Date date, double amount, double pricePerShare)
Create a new stock block

Method Summary

int	compareTo(java.lang.Object other) Determine the relative order of two stock blocks.
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object other) Test if two stock blocks have all the same field values.

Methods inherited from class stockportfolio.AbsStockBlock

getPricePerShare, getShares, getStock, getTransactionDate, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

StockBlock

public StockBlock(java.lang.String stock,
                  java.util.Date date,
                  double amount,
                  double pricePerShare)

Create a new stock block

Parameters:

stock -

date -

amount -

pricePerShare -

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object other)

Test if two stock blocks have all the same field values.

Returns:

true iff all fields of both blocks are the same. THIS CODE SHOULD BE OK AS IS.

compareTo

public int compareTo(java.lang.Object other)

Determine the relative order of two stock blocks. The order sequence is : name, date, number of shares, price per share. All ordering is ascending.

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable

Parameters:

other - any object

Returns:

-1, 0, +1, as in the compareTo base method, depending on whether the receiver is less than, equal to, or greater than the object passed in.

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if the argument is null

java.lang.ClassCastException - is the argument is not a StockBlock