Table vs List of Objects

NightMarcher

I was wondering if anyone knew which was more efficient / better practice: If I have a class that loads a CSV file into a table and methods that access the data. Is this just as efficient as putting this data into an list of objects for storage.

Here is an example:

//Build list of values from Table in main class
for(int i = 0; i < concertInfo.getTableLength(); i++)
{
   list.add(concertInfo.getTime(i));
}

public class ConcertInfo
{
  private Table table;

  public ConcertInfo(String tempCsvFile)
  {
    table = loadTable(tempCsvFile, "header");
  }

  public int getTableLength()
  {
    int rowCount = table.getRowCount();
    return rowCount;
  }

  public String getTime(int iter)
  {
    String time = table.getString(iter, 0);
    return time;
  }

  public String getVolume(int iter)
  {
    String time = table.getString(iter, 1);
    return volume;
  }

VS

 //Build list of Objects in main class
 for(int i = 0; i < csvFile.size(); i++)
 {
   list.add(new OneMinute(time, volume));
 }

//Build list of values in main class from the list of objects
for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)
{
  timeList.add(list.get(i).getTime(i));
}

public class OneMinute
{
  private String time;
  private String volume;

  public OneMinute(String tempTime)
  {
    time = tempTime;    
  }  

  public String getTime()
  {
    return time;
  }

  public String getVolume()
  {
    return volume;
  }

GoToLoop

1st model is a singleton wrapper, a sugar-coating for a Table object.
It's mostly renaming Table's original name methods to something else of your choice!
There's even a slightly performance loss by having an extra layer to access the real thing! :-&

2nd model you're transferring each Table row to a corresponding object entity.
Then storing their references in another data-structure like a List.
That's the same approach I did to represent deck cards loaded from a ".csv" file as a Table! B-)

You can check that out below:

http://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/2801/picking-cards-at-random-then-excluding-those-from-further-picking-

NightMarcher

Thanks GoToLoop! This is my first time using the Table class and this will be really helpful moving forward.