A similar situation (here, just a method):

    public static void print(Object[] array){
        List list = Arrays.asList(array);
        for(Object element : list){
            System.out.println(element.toString());
        }
    }

I haven't fully tested it out, but I've tried passing a String[] and
am still getting memory pointers.

-Thufir

I've looked around, but haven't found the information I was looking for
yet.  Strictly looking at the syntax for assigning a row of ADDRESS_DATA
to the address object, is there a more compact syntax?

thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab2$
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab2$ cat src/a00720398/labs/Task.java
//Task.java

//this class is required to be the "meat" of lab2

package a00720398.labs;
import a00720398.data.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Task
{
       private ArrayList<Guest> guests;

       private Guest guest;

    //these three objects should consolidated to one object:
       Address address;
       ContactInfo contactInfo;
       Name name;

       //it's required to load data from these arrays

                 private final String[][]

       GUEST_DATA = {
       { "Lee", "Brenda", "(604) 636-1000", "b.lee@bcit.ca" },
       { "Sullivan", "Sam", "604-873-7011", "Sam777@hotmail.com" },
       { "Johansen", "Lars", "(604) 636-1000", "Lars147@gmail.com" }},

       ADDRESS_DATA = {
       { "3700 Willingdon Avenue", "Burnaby", "British Columbia",
       "V5G 3H2", "Canada" },
       { "453 West 12th Avenue", "Vancouver", "BC", "V5Y 1V4",
        "Canada"  },
       { "1000 Lougheed Highway", "Coquitlam", "British Columbia",
       "V3K 3T5", "" } };

       //creates new instances of each Guest attribute
       //It might be better to treat name, contactInfo and address
       //as mutatable.  Not a major point.
       public Guest newGuest(int row){
               name = new Name(GUEST_DATA[row][0], GUEST_DATA[row][1]);
               contactInfo = new ContactInfo(GUEST_DATA[row][2],
               GUEST_DATA[row][3]);

               //apparently there's a trick to assign an entire
               //row with one go?
               address = new
                Address(ADDRESS_DATA[row][0],ADDRESS_DATA[row][1],
               
               ADDRESS_DATA[row][2],ADDRESS_DATA[row][3]
               ,ADDRESS_DATA ,[row][4]);
               Guest guest = new Guest(name,contactInfo,address);
               return guest;
       }

       public void loadArray() {
               guests = new ArrayList<Guest>();
               for (int i=0; i<3; i++) {
                       guest = newGuest(i);
                       guests.add(guest);
               }
               System.out.println(guests);
       }
}
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab2$

thanks,

Thufir

I should collect some!

Right, thanks for explaining what the result was!  What I actually wanted
to do was:

    public static String TWO_D_ARRAY = {
    { "00", "01", "02" },
    { "10", "11", "12" },
    { "20", "21", "22" }},

    public static String[] data;

    data = TWO_D_ARRAY(0);  //grabs 00, 01, 02

to just grab a single row.  seems silly to me, but this was, essentially,
a requirement of the lab (to grab a row without explicitly iterating).

I think it's rather arcane, but it makes me wonder if there's some
similar "magical" technique for grabbing column.

-Thufir