Thread: Java - Inheritance help!

Hi, can I please get some help with the following task. I've started the coding, although I have some of the methods I'm not sure on how to do (i.e the toString and equals)

The task and other provided are below.
Task.doc

public class Employee
{
    private String name;
 
    public Employee()
    {
 
    }
 
    public Employee(String employeeName)
    {
        name = employeeName;
    }
 
    public Employee(Employee Employee)
    {
 
    }
 
    public String getName()
    {
        return name;
    }
 
    public void setName(String employeeName)
    {
        this.name = employeeName;
    }
 
    public String toString()
    {   
         return name;
    }
 
    public boolean equals(Employee Object)
    {
 
    }
}

public class HourlyEmployee extends Employee
{
    private double wageRate;
    private double hours;
 
    public HourlyEmployee()
    {
 
    }
 
    public HourlyEmployee(String name, double employeeWageRate, double employeeHours)
    {
        super(name);
        wageRate = employeeWageRate;
        hours = employeeHours;
    }
 
    public HourlyEmployee(Employee HourlyEmployee)
    {
 
    }
 
    public double getRate()
    {
        return wageRate;        
    }
 
    public double getHours()
    {
        return hours;
    }
 
    public double getPay()
    {
 
        return wageRate*hours;
    }
 
    public void setHours(double employeeHours)
    {
        this.hours = employeeHours;
    }
 
    public void setRate(double employeeWageRate)
    {
        this.wageRate = employeeWageRate;
    }
 
    public String toString()
    {
        return "Sam\n$50.5 per hour for 40.0 hours\n";
    }
 
//     public boolean equals(Object)
//     {
//         
//     }    
}

public class SalariedEmployee extends Employee
{
    private double salary;
    public SalariedEmployee()
    {
 
    }
 
    public SalariedEmployee(String name, double employeeSalary)
    {
        super(name);
        salary = employeeSalary;
    }
 
    public SalariedEmployee(Employee SalariedEmployee)
    {
 
    }
 
    public double getSalary()
    {
        return salary;
    }
 
//     public double getPay()
//     {
//         return ;
//     }
 
    public void setSalary(double employeeSalary)
    {
        this.salary = employeeSalary;
    }
 
//     public String toString()
//     {
//         return 
//     }
 
//     public boolean equals(Object Employee)
//     {
//         
//     }
}

public class EmployeeDemo
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        ArrayList<Employee> emplist = new ArrayList<Employee>();
        emplist.add(new SalariedEmployee("Josephine", 100000));
        emplist.add(new HourlyEmployee("Sam",50.50, 40.0));
 
        //this loop shows you how to call a public method in a superclass that all subclasses inherit from.   
        //this also shows how to call methods of individual sub classes.
        for(Employee aEmp: emplist)
        {
            System.out.println(aEmp.getName());
                if(aEmp instanceof SalariedEmployee)
                {
                    System.out.println("$" + ((SalariedEmployee) aEmp).getSalary() + " per year");
                }
                else if(aEmp instanceof HourlyEmployee)
                {
                    System.out.print("$" + ((HourlyEmployee) aEmp).getRate() + " per hour for ");
                    System.out.println(((HourlyEmployee) aEmp).getHours() + " hours");
                }
                System.out.println();
        }
        //the following will produce the same output as above.
        //Note that System.out.println() calls the toString() method initially defined in class Object but
        //overridden by SalariedEmployee and HourlyEmployee classes.
        for(Employee aEmp: emplist)
        {
            System.out.println(aEmp +"\n");
        }
    }
}

Way too much code. This is what we need:

- a description of what the toString() method should do
- your current code for the toString() method
- any questions or problems you're having with code you've posted