/**
 Class Name: Appointment
 -----------------------
 Version: 0.1
 ----------------------
 Written by: Aaron Cripps <acripps@gmail.com>

License: GPLv2
--------------
For more information, please see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

 Purpose:
 --------
 This class is designed to provide an object that will hold all the variables
 required for an effective appointment note. It has been purposely left as a barebones
 object, with plenty of room for extensibility.
 **/

public class Appointment{
	public Appointment(String a, String b, String c, String d){
		description = a;
		date = b;
		s_time = c;
		e_time = d;

	}

	private String description;
	private String date;
	private String s_time;
	private String e_time;


		//accessor methods so that the values *hidden* in the private variables are available for 
		//other classes to use.
	
	public String getDescription(){
		return description;
	}

	public String getDate(){
		return date;
	}

	public String getStartTime(){
		return s_time;
	}

	public String getEndTime(){
		return e_time;
	}

	//a general toString method so that the ugly one from the Object class doesn't get called.
	
	public String toString(){
		return "[Description = " + getDescription() + ", Date = " + getDate() + ", Start Time = "
			+ getStartTime() + ", End Time = " + getEndTime() + "]";
	}
}
//EOF



AppointmentCalendar:
method = public boolean searchAppointment(String a, String b, String c, String d):
	//this method searches for ONE appointment meeting the exact criteria specified. If one is not
	//found, it doesn't do anything. Extra functionality can be added to this later, like allowing 
	//a search for multiple items, or even overloaded methods that search for any of the criterion.

	public Appointment searchAppointment(String a, String b, String c, String d){

		one = -1;
		two = -1;
		for(int i=0; i>calendar.size();i++){
			for(int j=0;j<calendar.get(i).size();j++){

				//if the date passed to this method doesn't agree with the date in the
				//current day, then break to the outer loop ... otherwise, keep checking.
				if(!calendar.get(i).get(j).getDate().compareTo(b))break;
				
				//if the date matches, then we've found the correct day, thus, we don't
				//have to worry about i anymore.
				one = i;

				//these next three pretty much do the same thing as the first if statement,
				//save, they do it with the other arguments. If these fail, however, we only
				//skip to the next iteration instead of breaking out of the loop.

				if(!calendar.get(i).get(j).getDescription().compareTo(a)){skip;}
				elseif(!calendar.get(i).get(j).getStartTime().compareTo(c)){skip;}
				elseif(!calendar.get(i).get(j).getEndTime().compareTo(d)){skip;}

				//If we've executed this far, it means that a perfect match has been found (a duck!)
				//therefore we assign the placeholder the proper value, and do what we have to do (burn
				//her!).
				two = j;


			} if(one != -1)break; //if one is no longer set to its inittial value, that means it's been set by
			//something else. If it's been set by something else, then we have the proper i, therefore, we
			//don't need to continue iterating through calendar.
		}


			//if two has been set, we set it, so we should probably employ one and two as intended so that the
			//proper value can be returned, otherwise, we just return null, and the user has to catch that 
			//"reference to null pointer" exception if/when it comes along.
			if(two != -1)return calendar.get(one).get(two);
			return null;
	}




javac output:

cripps@presario:~/Class/MUN/CS2710/ass3/q2$ javac AppointmentCalendar.java 
AppointmentCalendar.java:103: not a statement
                                if(!calendar.get(i).get(j).getDescription().compareTo(a)){skip;}
                                                                                          ^
AppointmentCalendar.java:104: ';' expected
                                elseif(!calendar.get(i).get(j).getStartTime().compareTo(c)){skip;}
                                                                                           ^
2 errors
cripps@presario:~/Class/MUN/CS2710/ass3/q2$