Class ? = new class

Question

Hi,
I am trying to model a simple employee record system for a friend. One feature of this is that from the GUI you can add a new employee. I am having trouble implementing this. I need to create a new instance of the class employee as the program is running.
employee ? = new employee
Except I wont be able to specify ? until the program is running, I thought I could just create a string variable, store a name to that and then create a new object with that name.
private String emp;
emp="dave";
employee emp = new employee
This would create a new employee object called dave. But it does not.
emp would contain a keyboard input.
Any idea how I could do this?

Answer 1

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Normally you'd create an Employee class with a constructor that accepts a unique way to identify it (a name is not unique - trust me, we have customers with this problem). I'll use the name as an example here though...
  Somewhere up here you've read the name of the employee
  from the user into a string object referred to by a
  variable called employeeName
Employee emp = new Employee(employeeName);That's it... the rest is in how you write the employee class... Here's a simple example...
public class Employee
  private String name;
  public Employee(String name)
    this.name = name;
  public String getName()
    return name;
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