[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 10 ■ Directing the Cast of Actors: Creating a Casting Director Engine and Creating the Bagel Actor Class
To show the .addCurrentCast() method that we are going to pass more than one Actor object into the body of the
method, we used the Actor... annotation, and I am going to name the (more than one) Actor objects variable actors.
Inside of the body of the .addCurrentCast() method we will call an .addAll() method off of the CURRENT_CAST
object using dot notation.
Inside of the .addAll() method we will nest another Java statement that will create an Arrays object from the
comma delimited List using the .asList() method called off the Arrays class reference and pass the actors Actor...
comma delimited list into that method. This is all done using the following Java method construct:
public void addCurrentCast(Actor... actors) {
CURRENT_CAST.addAll( Arrays.asList(actors) );
}
As you can see in Figure 10-4, you will get a wavy red error highlighting under the Arrays class, so use the
Alt-Enter work process and have NetBeans write your import java.util.Arrays; statement for you. Now we are
ready to write the other two methods relating to the CURRENT_CAST data store that will remove Actor objects from
the List ArrayList data store object, and one that will clear it out entirely (reset it to being unused).
Figure 10-4. Add .addCurrentCast(), removeCurrentCast(), and resetCurrentCast methods to the CastingDirector class
The second method that we will code is the .removeCurrentCast() method, which will also pass in a comma
delimited List of Actor objects to the List (and ArrayList class implementing List) interfaces .removeAll() method call.
To show this .removeCurrentCast() method that we are going to pass more than one Actor object into the body
of the method, we again use the Actor... annotation, and I am going to again name this variable actors. Inside of the
body of the .removeCurrentCast() method we will again call the .removeAll() method off of the CURRENT_CAST
object, and inside of the .removeAll() method we’ll nest another Java statement that will create an Arrays object from
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