Class EmptySea

java.lang.Object

Ship

EmptySea

public class EmptySea
extends Ship

Considered a type of Ship so that the Ocean's ship 2D array can consist of EmptySea references for empty tiles and proper ships for tiles with ships actually inside of them.

Author:

harry

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class Ship

bowColumn, bowRow, hit, horizontal, length

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
EmptySea()	Sets the inherited length variable and initializes the hit array, based on the size of this Empty Sea (1 tiles).

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getShipType()
boolean	isSunk()	Since an EmptySea is empty by definition, it is not possible that one can be sunk.
boolean	shootAt(int row, int column)	Since an EmptySea is empty by definition, shooting at one will always be a miss.
String	toString()	Returns a single character String to use in the Ocean's print method.

Methods inherited from class Ship

getBowColumn, getBowRow, getLength, isHorizontal, okToPlaceShipAt, placeShipAt, setBowColumn, setBowRow, setHorizontal

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

EmptySea

public EmptySea()

Sets the inherited length variable and initializes the hit array, based on the size of this Empty Sea (1 tiles).

Method Details

shootAt

public boolean shootAt(int row,
 int column)

Since an EmptySea is empty by definition, shooting at one will always be a miss.

Overrides:

shootAt in class Ship

Parameters:

row - the row of the shot

column - the column of the shot

Returns:

false always, since nothing will be hit.

isSunk

public boolean isSunk()

Since an EmptySea is empty by definition, it is not possible that one can be sunk.

Overrides:

isSunk in class Ship

Returns:

false always, since nothing will be hit.

toString

public String toString()

Description copied from class: Ship

Returns a single character String to use in the Ocean's print method. This method should return "x" if the ship has been sunk, and "S" if it has not yet been sunk. This method can only be used to print out locations in the ocean that have been shot at; it should not be used to print locations that have not been the target of a shot yet.

Overrides:

toString in class Ship

Returns:

"x" if this ship has been sunk, and "S" otherwise.

getShipType

public String getShipType()

Specified by:

getShipType in class Ship

Returns:

"empty", indicating that this is an Empty sea tile.