service

Class YahooFinanceService

java.lang.Object

service.YahooFinanceService

public class YahooFinanceService
extends java.lang.Object

An updating cache of stock symbols and current data. TODO: Should fix this to only hold onto the ~100 most requested stocks.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static YahooFinanceService	getInstance() Method to return the singleton instance of this class.
Stock	getStock(java.lang.String symbol) Returns a Stock Object that contains info about a specified stock.
void	update() Work horse for updating the cache, runs on its own thread and does a complete replacement of the Global HashMap.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

update

public void update()

Work horse for updating the cache, runs on its own thread and does a complete replacement of the Global HashMap.

getStock

public Stock getStock(java.lang.String symbol)

Returns a Stock Object that contains info about a specified stock.

Parameters:

symbol - the company's stock symbol

Returns:

a stock object containing info about the company's stock or null if invalid

See Also:

Stock

getInstance

public static YahooFinanceService getInstance()

Method to return the singleton instance of this class.

Returns:

a YahooFinanceService object