Trouble escaping quotes so I can use arraylist values to get recordsets

Question

My app is being built in tiny little baby steps.....
Thanks to the kind folks on this forum, I've modified the constructor for a class I have to accept an arrayList rather than series of strings. The relevant parts of the class are below.
Now, when I construct this class, instead of sending something like
chsShape(arraylistValue1,arraylistValue2,arraylistValue3...)
I need to construct it with infor pulled from a database. I previously had stuff hardcoded like the following, and it worked: chsShape(rs.getString("arraylistValue1"),rs.getString("arraylistValue2"),rs.getString("arraylistValue3...)")
You can see in the code below that I'm trying to escape the quotes so that they can be interpreted correctly to get info from the db. The result is that the quotes are not escaped, and my output has values like rs.getString(\"arraylistValue1\")
So once again, I am forced to turn to you ever-helpful folks.
public class chsShape {
     public ArrayList setInfo;
     public ArrayList getInfo() {
          ArrayList fields=new ArrayList();
           for (int x=0;x<setInfo.size();x++){
               fields.add("rs.getString(\\\""+setInfo.get(x)+")\\\"");     
          return ((ArrayList)fields);
}

Answer 1

McMahonM wrote:
I was just indicating that I hadn't heard of (or thought of) a constructor taking a resultset.
Did my previous post outlining valid content for my chsShape construction help you understand what I'm trying to do any better?
I'm happy to elaborate on anything else you might need to know.
Thanks so much for helping!Yes, I understand now. I suggest doing either of the following:
Either pass it values:
new ChsShape("Vancouver","Map 1", "2,250,000,000","Starbucks") //classes should always start with a capital letter, BTWThose values wouldn't be hard coded, so that will actually look like:
String city = ...
String somethingElse = ...
String population = ... //why is population a String?
String store = ...
ChsShape shape = new ChsShape(city, somethingElse, population, store);If there is some reason you want to pass it a list (I don't see the reason, myself):
String city = ...
String somethingElse = ...
String population = ... //why is population a String?
String store = ...
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add(city);
list.add(somethingElse);
list.add(population);
list.add(store);
ChsShape shape = new ChsShape(list);