Class that creates objects?

Question

Hello everyone! Im quite new to java and oop, but im enjoying using it quite a lot. I have read some books but everything is so fresh it is easy to get confused. I think this is a very basic questions but, here it goes:
I have this simple class:
public class Soda {
int id;
int sid;
String brand;
String flavor;
}And now i want to fetch an URL that will return a text string for example "|1|23|Fanta|Orange". Now i want to create a Soda Object from this string (The String could have several Sodas)".... forget the parsing needed and the fectching for the text and everything else (Im using J2ME, and i have it solved)... but more basically:
how can i make a *method that creates Soda objects*? Funny how i get confused with the simplest things.
Thank you everyone for your comments and help!
Alejandro

Answer 1

AlexR wrote:
while(something) {
Soda soda=new Soda();}and each iteration of the while loop will create a different object? or overwrite over and over the created soda object?Each iteraion will create a new Soda object, and overwrite the soda variable with a reference to that object. If you want to have access to all the Soda objects after the loop exits, you need to add references to them to a collection or array.
[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/]
[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/arrays.html]
Also, you can create constructors that take arguments.
String brand = (parse brand from string);
String flavor = (parse flavor from string);
Soda soda = new Soda(brand, flavor);
public class Soda {
  private final String brand;
  private final String flavor;
  public Soda(String brand, String flavor) {
    this.brand = brand;
    this.flavor = flavor;
}