Polymorphism example in SortResult

Sorting/SortResult.java

@@ -5,11 +5,47 @@ import java.time.Duration;
  * This is a class to hold the efficiencty results of a sorter. We will use this
  * because we can only have one return value from a method, but want to get more
  * than one piece of data from each sorter.
+ * 
+ * We will write several constructors for this class, as not all sorting algorithms
+ * will use all of the fields. For example, radix sort does not use comparisons.
+ * Counting sort does not use swaps.
+ * 
+ * Writing several constructors for difference situations is an example of
+ * "polymorphism" -- the quality of object oriented design that lets a single
+ * interface have multiple implementations.
+ * 
+ * The methods that call the constructor of SortResult don't know it has lots of
+ * them, they only know what data they have to give it.
  */
 public class SortResult {
     
     private int[] sortedArray;
-    private long comparisonsUsed;
+    private String comparisonsUsed;
-    private long swapsUsed;
+    private String swapsUsed;
     private Duration timeUsed;
+
+    public SortResult(int[] a, long c, long s, Duration t){
+        sortedArray = a;
+        if(c==0){
+            comparisonsUsed = "None";
+        }
+        else{
+        comparisonsUsed = Long.toString(c);
+        }
+        if(s==0){
+            swapsUsed = "None";
+        }
+        else{
+            swapsUsed = Long.toString(s);
+        }
+        timeUsed = t;
+    }
+
+    public SortResult(int [] a, Duration t){
+        sortedArray = a;
+        timeUsed = t;
+        comparisonsUsed = "Unknown";
+        swapsUsed = "Unknown";
+    }
+
 }