README-AnimalsPetsOwners.md

AnimalsPetsOwners

• Objective: To implement a PetsOwner which manipulates composite Pet objects.

Pet

• Ensure each of the test cases in the class Pet successfully passes upon completion of each of the method stubs in the class PetTest.
  • Pet()
  • Pet(String)
  • Pet(int)
  • Pet(String, int)
  • String getName()
  • Integer getAge()
  • void setOwner(PetOwner owner)
  • PetOwner getOwner()

Part 1; Defining instance variables

• To create a programmatic representation of a Pet, begin by declaring an instance variable for each of the following properties:
  • String name
    • a collection of characters, representative of a name.
  • Integer age
    • an integer, representative of an age in years.
  • PetOwner owner
    • the owner of this Pet.

Part 2; Defining construction

• Define a Pet constructor whose parameters are used to initialize its instance variables.
• A Pet can be constructed in 4 ways.
  1. Pet()
     • Upon nullary construction, pet has age of 0 and name of "".
  2. Pet(String)
     • Upon construction, name field should be set to respective parameter value, pet has default age of 0.
  3. Pet(int)
     • Upon construction, age field should be set to respective parameter value, pet has default name of "".
  4. Pet(String, int)
     • name and age variables should set to respective parameter values.

Part 3; Defining methods

• Getters and Setters
  • Define a getter and setter for each of the instance variables declared in the Pet class.
    • String getName()
    • Integer getAge()
    • void setOwner()
    • PetOwner getOwner()

Part 4; Pet elucidation

• Dog

  • Ensure Dog supports all methods of pet construction.
  • The mechanism by which a Dog speaks is by barking; ensure a dog's speak method returns bark as a string.

• Cat

  • Ensure Cat supports all methods of pet construction.
  • The mechanism by which a Cat speaks is by meowing; ensure a cat's speak method returns meow as a string.

Part 5; PetOwner

• Ensure each of the test cases in the class PetOwner successfully passes upon completion of each of the method stubs in the class PetOwner.
  • PetOwner(String name, Pet... pets)
  • void addPet(Pet pet)
  • void removePet(Pet pet)
  • Boolean isOwnerOf(Pet pet)
  • Integer getYoungetPetAge()
  • Integer getOldestPetAge()
  • Double getAveragePetAge()
  • Integer getNumberOfPets()
  • String getName()
  • Pet[] getPets()