Village

cpc.sau.agents
Class Village

java.lang.Object
  cpc.sau.agents.Village

public class Village
extends java.lang.Object

An object representing a village, town or community that contains a number of houses(Household objects) and people(Individual objects). This class is designed with very few attributes and methods so it can easily be extended and customized.
households: an arraylist stores all household agents in this village
residents :total number of residents in this village
villagName: a string represents the name of this village

The class has two constructors for creating a new village agent.

Village

public Village()

This constructor creates a new village with empty values. These values can be changed with their set methods.

Village

public Village(java.util.ArrayList<Household> households,
               java.lang.String vName)

Constructs a new village agent with two parameters.

Parameters:

households - the households arraylist. It contains all households in the village.

vName - the name of this village

getResidents

public int getResidents()

Calculates and returns the total number of residents in this village. It sums the number in individuals in each household in the village.

Returns:

number of residents in this village.

setVName

public void setVName(java.lang.String Vname)

Sets the name of this village.

Parameters:

Vname - a string value

getVName

public java.lang.String getVName()

Returns the name of this village.

Returns:

the name of this village

setHouseholds

public void setHouseholds(java.util.ArrayList<Household> hsld)

Sets the household arraylist of this village. The list contains all households in this village.

Parameters:

hsld - an arraylist containing all households in this village

getHouseholdList

public java.util.ArrayList getHouseholdList()

Returns the list of all households in this village. Each object in the list is a Household.

Returns:

an arraylist containing all households in this village.

getHouseholdCount

public int getHouseholdCount()

Returns the number of households in this village.

Returns:

the total number of households in this village.

addNewHousehold

public void addNewHousehold(Household hsd)

Adds a new household to this village.

Parameters:

hsd - a household object

deleteHousehold

public void deleteHousehold(Household hsd)

Removes a household from this village

Parameters:

hsd - the household to be deleted