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Hi all,
I would greatly appreciate any help I could get with this program (which is described below) , together with the code I’ve written, as I’m getting a lot of errors in the code which suggests I’m seriously off track. Thanks very much.
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Program:
The city periodically goes through its records and schedules property inspections (e.g., for lead or rodents). You will complete a Java application that reads a list of property data from a file and determines what kinds of inspections should be scheduled (if any). When properties contain multiple units (e.g., apartments), an inspection is scheduled for the entire building; however, the types of inspections are determined based on data concerning each unit.

Output of the completed program should look like (sample run, user input in bold):

Owner Street Unit Built
Bill Jannings 1 College Way 2000
Danielle Parsons 1200 Beacon St. 7 1998
Terry Hawkings 1200 Beacon St. B 1999
Greg Royal 1200 Beacon St. 17 1998
Dennis Howe 15 Boltoph St. 1 1885
Soi Fong 15 Boltoph St. 2 1885
William Burrows 15 Boltoph St. 5 1885
Ken Dahal 247 Harvard Ave. 1899
Inspections:
1 College Way:
1200 Beacon St.: rodents
15 Boltoph St.: lead rodents
247 Harvard Ave.: lead

Outline
1. Reads all property data from file (properties.txt) into array.
2. Displays property data: owner name, street address, unit (if any), and year built.
3. Displays the inspections scheduled for each building.

Property Class
The Property class represents data for a single property within the city.
Data Members
The code provided includes the following data members:
• owner: owner’s name.
• streetAddress: street address without the unit number.

•unit: unit information (may be in various formats: “Unit #B”, “Apt. B”, etc.).
• builtYear: year unit was built (or when building was built, if there aren’t separate units).
Methods
The code provided includes a default constructor as well as some accessors and mutators. You must complete 3 methods within the class (headers below):
1. Method to set the address:

public void setAddress(String newAddress)
This method should break the address passed into its street address and unit. Assume the unit (if any) follows a comma (,). If there is no unit listed, store the empty string as the unit. Look up appropriate String class methods to find the comma in a string, etc.
2. Constructor to initialize the object using the values passed:

public Property(String initOwner,
String initAddress,
int initBuiltYear)

This constructor should initialize all data members using its parameters. As part of its definition, call method setAddress (see above) to set the address, thus initializing the street address and unit members. Currently, the default constructor and “set” methods are used in method loadProperties [Inspections.java] to initialize each property record stored in an array. Change the code to instead use this constructor.
3. Method to extract the number (or letter, etc.) of the unit:

public String getUnitNum()
This method should return a string containing only the unit number. For example, units are stored in various ways within the property data file: Apt. 7, Unit #2, simply #17, or even just B. This method should not change how the unit is stored within the Property class, it should only extract and return the unit number (here, 7, 2, 17, and B) and returns it.
This will again require using String class methods. Examine the property data file properties.txt to see all the formats used. This method is called from method displayProperties [Inspections.java].
Main Program (Class Inspections)
The main program (class Inspections) is divided into methods. Notably, method loadProperties returns an array. Recall that a Java array is stored using a reference. A couple methods list throws clauses (throws FileNotFoundException) since opening a file may cause an exception that the code does not catch.
As stated in 2. under “Methods” above, in method loadProperties, instantiate each Property object using the constructor (with arguments) that you wrote [Property.java].
Complete method scheduleInspections to display scheduled inspections for buildings. The method will not list inspections for every unit, only for each building (unique street address). Call that method from main.
For example, reviewing the sample run:
Owner Street Unit Built
Bill Jannings 1 College Way 2000
Danielle Parsons 1200 Beacon St. 7 1998
Terry Hawkings 1200 Beacon St. B 1999
Greg Royal 1200 Beacon St. 17 1998
Dennis Howe 15 Boltoph St. 1 1885
Soi Fong 15 Boltoph St. 2 1980
William Burrows 15 Boltoph St. 5 1885
Ken Dahal 247 Harvard Ave. 1899
Inspections:
1 College Way:
1200 Beacon St.: rodents
15 Boltoph St.: lead rodents
247 Harvard Ave.: lead
The schedule does not show “1200 Beacon St.” multiple times; instead it appears only once for its 3 units. Below outlines how method scheduleInspections displays output for each building only once:
• Declares a variable to keep track of the last street address seen.
• Loops through each of the properties.
• If a property’s street address is the same as the last street address seen, then we must be in the same building (assumes property records for a particular building are contiguous). Note how it correctly compares strings.
• If the street address changes, outputs the address of the building (right now it doesn’t output any inspections).

You must add code to determine and output inspections as follows:
• If any unit in a building was built before 1970, schedule a “lead” inspection. Add an appropriate constant.
• If there is more than one unit in a building, schedule a “rodent” inspection.
• Eliminate the spurious output that appears for the first property record.
To determine these inspections, you must track the earliest (minimum) “year built” for each building (among all its units). In addition, your must count the number of units in a building.

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My ( error-filled ) code is as follows. It contains a parent (main) class called Inspections & a child class called Property .

(a) Inspections (main):

Code:

/*

 * File: Inspections.java

 * Date: Monday, September 17th 2012.

 * Description: A Java application,

 * that reads a list of property data from a file,

 * and determines what kinds of inspections should be scheduled (if any). 

 */

 

import java.util.*;  // for Scanner

import java.io.*;    // for FileReader



public class Inspections

   {

   // Load all property records from file.

   public static void  loadProperties()

   throws FileNotFoundException   // unhandled exception for FileReader



   {

   String[] owner = new String[8];

   String[] streetAddress = new String[8];

   String[] unit = new String[8];

   int[] builtYear = new int[8];

   

   }

      





   public static Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);

   

   public static void main(String[] args)

      throws FileNotFoundException

   {

      Property[] allProperties = loadProperties(Property.Properties);

      

      // CALL METHOD scheduleInspections

         scheduleInspections( );



      

      displayProperties(allProperties);

      

      // Allow user to enter names of properties

      

      System.out.print("Enter name of property:  ");

      String name = console.nextLine( );

      

      Property property1 = new Property(name);

      System.out.println("Initial status: " + property1);

      

      

      // Loop through each of the properties

      final int REQUIREMENT_FOR_RODENT_INSPECTION = 2;



      while(property1.getScheduleInspections( ) > 0)

      {

       // Determine if inspection required

       if(property1.getUnit()< REQUIREMENT_FOR_RODENT_INSPECTION)

       {

        System.out.println("Schedule rodent inspection");

        }

        else if (property1.getYear() < 1970)

        {

         System.out.println("Schedule lead inspection");

         }

                  

      

      Scanner condFile = new Scanner(new FileReader("properties.txt"));



      int numPropertys = condFile.nextInt();  // # of records in file



      // Create array large enough for all records in file.

      Property[] readProperties = new Property[numPropertys];

      

      // Read in all weather property data.

      for (int i = 0; i < readProperties.length; i++)

      {

         condFile.nextLine();  // eat newline since just read number

         String owner = condFile.nextLine();

         String address = condFile.nextLine();

         int year = condFile.nextInt();

         

         // REPLACE DEFAULT CONSTRUCTOR AND "set" CALLS WITH

         // USE OF CONSTRUCTOR THAT TAKES ARGUMENTS.

         readProperties[i] = new Property(owner,address,year);  //readProperties[i] = new Property();

           //readProperties[i].setOwner(owner);

         //readProperties[i].setAddress(address);

         //readProperties[i].setBuiltYear(year);

      }

      

      return readProperties;

   }

   

// Display formatted  data......started  here

         }

      }

   //}

   

      // Display formatted data for each property.

     public static void displayProperties(Property[] showProperties)  //

   {

      System.out.printf("%-20s%-25s%-9s%-7s%n",

         "Owner", "Street", "Unit", "Built");

   //}

         

      for (int i = 0; i < showProperties.length; i++)

      {

         System.out.printf("%-20s%-25s%-9s%-7d%n",

            showProperties[i].getOwner(),

            showProperties[i].getStreetAddress(),

            showProperties[i].getUnitNum(),

            showProperties[i].getBuiltYear() );

      }

   }

   

   // Display needed inspections for each building.

      String rodent;

      String lead;

   // COMPLETE METHOD scheduleInspections

// public static void scheduleInspections(Property[] inspectProperties)

   {

     String lastAddress = "";



      System.out.println("\nInspections:");



      for (int i = 0; i < inspectProperties.length; i++)

      {

         String currAddress = inspectProperties[i].getStreetAddress();



         if (!currAddress.equals(lastAddress))

         {

            System.out.print(lastAddress + ":");

            System.out.println();

            

            lastAddress = currAddress;

         

         }}}

   }  

   }

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(b) Property (child) class:

Code:

/*

 * File: Property.java

 * Date: Monday 24th September 2012.

 * Description: Property class is a subclass of Inspections.

 */



import java.util.*;  // for Scanner



public class Property

{

   private String owner;

   private String streetAddress;

   private String unit;

   private int builtYear;

   

   // "default constructor" called when no arguments

   // given during instantiation.

   public Property()

   {

      owner = "";

      streetAddress = "";

      unit = "";

      builtYear = 0;

   }

   

   // ADD A CONSTRUCTOR THAT EXPECT ARGUMENTS WITH

   // INITIAL VALUES FOR DATA MEMBERS.

   

   public Property(String initOwner, String initAddress, int initBuiltYear)

   {

       owner = initOwner;

       setAddress(initAddress);     

       builtYear = initBuiltYear;

   }





   // "accessor" methods to give back values of data members.

   

   public String getOwner()

   {

      return owner;

   }

   

   public String getStreetAddress()

   {

      return streetAddress;

   }



   public String getUnit()

   {

      return unit;

   }



   public int getBuiltYear()

   {

      return builtYear;

   }



   public String getUnitNum()

   {

      // ADD CODE TO EXTRACT AND RETURN UNIT NUMBER.

      String num = "";

      for(int i = 0; i < unit.length; i++)

      {     

         if(Character.isDigit(unit[i].charAt(0)))

        {

            num = num + unit[i];

         }

         else

         {

         Character.isDigit(unit[i].charAt(unit.length - 1));

         }    

     }

      return num;

   }



   // "mutator" methods to change values of data members.

      

   public void setOwner(String newOwner)

   {

      owner = newOwner;

   }

   

   public void setAddress(String newAddress)

   {

      // ADD CODE TO SEPARATE AND STORE THE

      // STREET ADDRESS AND UNIT.

     String [] newAddressSplit = newAddress.split(",",2);

     

     streetAddress = newAddressSplit[0];

     unit = newAddressSplit[1];

    }

      

   public void setBuiltYear(int year)

   {

      builtYear = year;

   }

   

    public void getScheduleInspections( )         // called from main

    {

      return scheduleInspections;

    }



}