Driver

/****************************************************/
/*                  Driver Class                    */
/* The Driver class contains methods to open the    */
/* file. Then adds the next line of the file to the */
/* array in ObjectList. Then gets the returned,     */
/* reduced Fraction object and sends it to the      */
/* FractionCounter class ctor to be handled by the  */
/* FractionCounter class. Then, finally return the  */
/* string value of the FractionCounter object       */
/****************************************************/

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Driver {

    /******************************************/
    /* Class (instance) variable declarations */
    /* Object creations                       */
    /******************************************/
    Scanner dataFileScanner = null;
    private int totalLineCount = 0;
    ObjectList myFractions = new ObjectList();
    Fraction[] fractionList = new Fraction[255];

    public static void main(String[] args){
        Driver driver = new Driver();
        driver.openTheFile();
        driver.addToList();
        driver.populateAndPrint();
        driver.expand();
        driver.closeTheFile();
    }

    public void openTheFile(){
        try {
            dataFileScanner = new Scanner(new FileInputStream("fractions.txt"));
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println("The file was not found");
            System.out.println("Check the directory and make sure fractions.txt is in the correct workspace folder");
        }
    }

    /****************************************************/
    /* Adding each fraction as a String to the object list
     * This method will check if there is another line,
     * then add that line to the next position in the array
     * stored in ObjectList */
    /****************************************************/
    public void addToList(){
        while(dataFileScanner.hasNext()){
            myFractions.add(dataFileScanner.nextLine());
            totalLineCount++;
        }
    }

    /****************************************************/
    /* This method contains a loop that goes over each  */
    /* Fraction Object in the fractionList then passes  */
    /* it to the constructor of a new FractionCounter   */
    /* object. */
    /****************************************************/
    public void populateAndPrint(){
        for(int i=0;i<myFractions.fractionList.length;i++){
            FractionCounter fCounter = new FractionCounter(myFractions.fractionList[i]);
            //System.out.println(fCounter.toString());
        }
    }

    /****************************************************/
    /* this method will create a new array, set the     */
    /* size to 1 more than the length of the list of    */
    /* fractionObjects. Copy the contents of the        */
    /* original to the new, then set the old to the new */
    /* array                                            */
    /****************************************************/
    public void expand() {
        Fraction[] newFractionList = new Fraction[fractionList.length + 1];
        System.arraycopy(fractionList, 0, newFractionList, 0, fractionList.length);
        fractionList = newFractionList;
    }

    public int getTotalLineCount(){
        return totalLineCount;
    }

    public void setTotalLineCount(int totalLineCount){
        this.totalLineCount = totalLineCount;
    }
    //we're done, so let's close the file. :)
    public void closeTheFile(){
        dataFileScanner.close();
    }
}