ictk.boardgame
Class Player

java.lang.Object
  ictk.boardgame.Player

Direct Known Subclasses:

ChessPlayer

public class Player

extends java.lang.Object

a Player represents a person, team or computer that is playing the game. All the methods of Player might not make sense for all subclasses (eg: any Team implementation does not need a firstname / lastname) but over interfacing this class doesn't make engineering sense.

Constructor Summary

Player()

Player(java.lang.String n)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object o) compares the lastname and firstname of the players
java.lang.String	getFirstName()
java.lang.String	getLastName()
java.lang.String	getName() used to get name of player in form "Lastname, Firstname" or just "Lastname" if no firstname is set.
int	hashCode() uses lastname and firstname to compute the hash
void	setFirstName(java.lang.String f)
void	setLastName(java.lang.String l)
java.lang.String	toString() a diagnostic tool only, currently returns getName();

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Player

public Player()

Player

public Player(java.lang.String n)

Parameters:

n - - "lastname, firstname" combo. If a string "name" is it will be set to the lastname.

Method Detail

getLastName

public java.lang.String getLastName()

getFirstName

public java.lang.String getFirstName()

setLastName

public void setLastName(java.lang.String l)

setFirstName

public void setFirstName(java.lang.String f)

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

used to get name of player in form "Lastname, Firstname" or just "Lastname" if no firstname is set.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

a diagnostic tool only, currently returns getName();

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object o)

compares the lastname and firstname of the players

hashCode

public int hashCode()

uses lastname and firstname to compute the hash