Modeling the queues at a college restaurant

[JessicaHelena]

Homework Statement

Here are the constraints: The restaurant runs from 6am to 11:59 pm daily (hence opens at minute 360).

On average, a customer arrives at the restaurant every 5 minutes. (Hence 20% chance of a customer in one minute.)

The restaurant requires between 2 and 7 minutes to fill a customer order, and because there is only one person running the entire restaurant, the next customer in line will be served only after the food is served to the previous customer.

While the restaurant tries to serve everyone in the order they came in, some groups of people are given a priority. Seniors will be served before Juniors; juniors before sophomores; sophomores before freshmen.

Relevant Equations

None specifically.

So far, I have implemented the code below, using Java Priority Queues and Maps. I tried to identify each customer by the time they came in (ranging from 360 and onwards) and their grades. However, this is my first time using priority queues and maps, and I am not very sure if I'm doing things right—in fact, it returns this error below, which I'm not sure how to fix despite having consulted the APIs and some other java resources:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.base/java.util.AbstractMap$SimpleEntry cannot be cast to java.base/java.lang.Comparable

Below is my code:
[CODE lang="java" highlight="90"]import java.util.*;
import java.util.PriorityQueue;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Map;

class CustomerComparator implements Comparator<Customer>
{
public int compare(Customer c1, Customer c2)
{
if(c1.grade < c2.grade)
return 1;
else if(c1.grade > c2.grade)
return -1;
else
return 0;
}
}

class Customer
{
public int grade;
public double waitingTime;

public Customer(int grade, double waitingTime)
{
this.grade = grade;
this.waitingTime = waitingTime;
}

public int getGrade()
{
return grade;
}

public double getWaitingTime()
{
return waitingTime;
}
}

public class McRonaldPriority
{
public static Queue<Map.Entry<Integer, Integer>> McRonald = new PriorityQueue<Map.Entry<Integer, Integer>>();
public static int waitingTime = 2 + (int)(Math.random() * ((7 - 2) + 1));

public static void main(String[] args)
{
McRonaldsPriority();
}

public static void McRonaldsPriority()
{
double rand = 0.0;
boolean newCustomer = false;
for(int i = 360; i<1440; i++)
{
if(McRonald.isEmpty())
waitingTime = 2 + (int)(Math.random() * ((7 - 2) + 1));
if(i == 1439)
{
while(!McRonald.isEmpty())
{
waitingTime--;
if(waitingTime == 0)
{
McRonald.remove();
waitingTime = 2 + (int)(Math.random() * ((7 - 2) + 1));
}
System.out.println(i + ": " + McRonald);
i++;
}
}
rand = Math.random();
if(rand >= 0.0 && rand < 0.2)
newCustomer = true;
else
newCustomer = false;
if(newCustomer)
{
int grade = 0;
double rand2 = Math.random();
if(rand >= 0.0 && rand < 0.25)
grade = 1;
else if(rand >= 0.25 && rand < 0.5)
grade = 2;
else if(rand >= 0.5 && rand <0.75)
grade = 3;
else
grade = 4;
McRonald.add(new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry(grade,i));
}

if(!McRonald.isEmpty())
{
waitingTime--;
if(waitingTime == 0)
McRonald.poll();
}
if(!McRonald.isEmpty() && waitingTime == 0)
{
waitingTime = 2 + (int)(Math.random() * ((7 - 2) + 1));
}
if (i<1439)
System.out.println(i + ": " + McRonald);
}
}
}[/CODE]

I've been stuck on this for a few days, and I'd really like some help!

 

[Mark44]

This apparently is the line of code that's throwing the exception:

McRonald.add(new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry(grade,i));

Your priority queue is a collection of Customer objects, so I would see if this change works:

McRonald.add(new Customer(grade, (double)i));