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The document discusses wrapper classes in Java, which allow primitive types to be treated as objects. It explains concepts such as boxing and unboxing, the inheritance hierarchy of wrapper classes, and provides examples of methods and constants associated with the Integer class. Additionally, it highlights the automatic conversion between primitive types and their corresponding wrapper objects, known as autoboxing and unboxing.

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The document discusses wrapper classes in Java, which allow primitive types to be treated as objects. It explains concepts such as boxing and unboxing, the inheritance hierarchy of wrapper classes, and provides examples of methods and constants associated with the Integer class. Additionally, it highlights the automatic conversion between primitive types and their corresponding wrapper objects, known as autoboxing and unboxing.

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PSOOP-Lec 22: WRAPPER CLASSES IN

JAVA
-Compiled by Nikahat Mulla
Agenda

• Wrapper Classes

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Wrapper Classes
• Java treats objects differently from variables of Primitive types

• Some times we need to treat int, char, float values as Objects

• Java provides Wrapper Classes for each primitive type which


wraps the value as an Object
Inheritance Hierarchy of Wrapper
Classes
Wrapper Classes
• The following declaration creates an
Integer object which is a reference to an
object with the integer value 40
Integer age = new
Integer(40);
• An object of a wrapper class is used in
situations where a primitive value will not
suffice
• For example, some objects serve as
containers of other objects
• Primitive values could not be stored in such
containers, but wrapper objects could be
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Wrapper Classes

• Wrapper classes may contain static methods that help


manage the associated type
• For example, the Integer class contains a method to convert
digits stored in a String to an int value:
num = Integer.parseInt(str);
• Wrapper classes often contain useful constants
• For example, the Integer class contains MIN_VALUE and
MAX_VALUE for the smallest and largest int values

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Wrapper Classes (Contd…)
• The java.lang package contains a wrapper class that
corresponds to each primitive type:
Primitive Wrapper
Constructor Arguments
Type Class

byte Byte byte or String

short Short short or String

int Integer int or String

long Long long or String

float Float float, double or String

double Double double or String

char Character char

boolean Boolean boolean or String

Note: The Wrapper classes do not contain a no-argument constructor


Wrapper Classes
• Converting from primitive to wrapper class is called as Boxing

Integer intobj = new Integer(575);

• Converting from wrapper class to primitive is called as Unboxing

int i = intobj.intValue();
Integer

Constructors

Integer(int value)
Integer(String s)

Constants (static)

MAX_VALUE Maximum positive value


MIN_VALUE Minimum positive value
TYPE The Class object for int
SIZE Number of bits used to represent int type
Integer Class example
Methods in java.lang.Integer
int compareTo(Integer anotherInteger)
double intValue() // similarly doubleValue(), byteValue(), floatValue(),
shortValue()
boolean equals(Object obj)
static int parseInt(String s)
static int parseInt(String s, int radix)
static String toBinaryString(int i) // toHexString(), toOctalString()
String toString()
static String toString(int i)
static Integer valueOf(String s)
static Integer valueOf(String s, int radix)
Autoboxing

• Autoboxing is the automatic conversion of a primitive value


to a corresponding wrapper object:
Integer obj;
int num = 42;
obj = num;
• The assignment creates the appropriate Integer object
wrapping a value of 42
• The reverse conversion (called unboxing) also occurs
automatically as needed
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AutoBoxing and unboxing

class AutoBox {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Integer iOb = 100; // autobox an int
int i = iOb; // auto-unbox
System.out.println(i + " " + iOb);
}
}

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Wrapper Classes (Contd…)
 Wrapper classes have a lot of useful methods

Examples:
Character.toLowerCase(ch)
Character.isLetter(ch)

 A common translation is converting a string to a numeric type


such as an int

Example:
String s = "65000";
int i = Integer.parseInt(s);
Thank You

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