Thread: The getAccount method returns the reference to the Account object.

Hello Everyone.
I am refreshing my Java programing as I took a course back to 2007. So, I started from scratch. There is a project and I got stack in one statement. "The getAccount method returns the reference to the Account object. return account"

This is a fragment of the Customer class

Customer Class
-accounts : Account = new Account()
-city = String
-address = String
-firstName = String
-lastName = String
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-getAddress(): String
-getAccount(): Account
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So, I was doing my programing until I got the getAccount

public class Customer
{
    String firstName;
    String lastName;
    String streetAddress;
    String cityName;
    String zipOrPostalCode;
 
    public String getAddress()
    {
        return streetAddress + cityName + zipOrPostalCode;
    }
 
    public String getName()
    {
        return lastName + ',' + firstName;
    }
 
}

I have another class called Account

public class Account
{
    char acctType;
    double balance; 
    String acctId;
 
    public void setBalance(double amount) 
    { 
       balance = amount;   // assigns the value of amount to the object attribute balance.
    }
 
     public void setId(String id)
    {
        acctId = id;
    }
 
    public void setAcctType(char type)
    {
        acctType = type;
    }
 
        public String getID() 
    { 
        return acctId;  // note the use of the return keyword to return a value
    }  
 
    public char getAcctType()
    {
        return acctType; 
    }
 
    public double getBalance()
    {
        return balance;
    }
 
}

On top of that, how I set up the setAccount according to this statement
The setAccount method receives a reference to an Account object. Assign this to the account field of the object: account = acct.

I appreciated if someone there would like to give me a help with that getAccount method in the Customer Class Please. Thank you

Hector

help with that getAccount method

Can you explain what problems you are having?
What is that method supposed to do?
What have you tried?

How do I do with the getAccount.

I assume that the getAccount method would return the reference to the instance of the Account class held in the class.
For an example from the posted code, the getBalance method returns the value held in the balance variable.

Here is a link to the Java Tutorial: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html