I am trying to implement a shallow copy for a Linked Stack, but I am failing the J-unit test provided by my instructor.
I have tried to implement a for loop that will cycle through the stack top to bottom and create a reference for each node to the new list on the pass through. I've added a print statement and the data references seem to match up,but my test are still failing.
public class LinkedStack<E> implements Stack<E>{
private int size = 0;
// Unlike the book, we'll use an inner class for our Node.
// Its two data members can be accessed directly by the Stack
// code, so we don't need setters and getters.
protected class Node{
    E data; 
    Node next;
}
protected Node top; // not public, but can still be seen by other classes in the
                    // csci211 package.
/** Create an empty stack.
 * 
 */
public LinkedStack(){
    top = null;
}
@Override // see interface for comments.
public void push(E e){
    //TODO 75
    Node temp = new Node();
    temp.data = e;
    temp.next = top;
    top = temp;
}
@Override // see interface for comments.
public E pop(){
    if (top==null) {
        throw new NoSuchElementException("Cannout pop an Empty Stack.");
    }
    E topvar;
    topvar = top.data;
    top = top.next;
    return topvar;
}
@Override // see interface for comments.
public E peek() {
    if (top == null) {
        throw new NoSuchElementException("Cannout peek an Empty Stack.");
    }
    //E topvar;
    //topvar = top.data;
    return top.data;
}
/** Retrieve the number of elements on this stack.
 * 
 * @return an int containing the number of elements
 */ 
public int size() {
    return this.size;
}
/** An Iterator for our LinkedStack.
 * 
 * @author rhodes
 *
 */
 class LinkedStackIterator implements Iterator<E> {
    LinkedStack<E>.Node next;  // the book calls this "current"
    public LinkedStackIterator(LinkedStack<E> s){
        next = s.top;
    }
    @Override
    public boolean hasNext() {
        return top != null;
        //TODO 100
        //return false;
    }
    @Override
    public E next() {
        if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
        E data = top.data;
        top = top.next; 
        return data;
        //TODO 100
        //return null;
    }
}
@Override
public void add(E element) {
    push(element);
}
@Override
public void clear() {
    this.top = null;
    this.size = 0;
}
@Override
public List<E> shallowCopy() {
     LinkedStack<E> newstack = new LinkedStack<E>();
     ArrayList<E> Alist = new ArrayList<E>();
    //Iterate through while we haven't hit the end of the stack
    Node newtest = top;
    while (newtest != null) {
        Alist.add(newtest.data);
        newtest = newtest.next;
    //TODO 85
    }
    for(int i = Alist.size()-1;i>=0;i--) {
        newstack.push(Alist.get(i));
    }
    return newstack;
}
@Override
public Iterator<E> iterator() {
    return new LinkedStackIterator(this);
}
}
This is the Junit tests that I am failing
@Test
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation") // for Date.setHours(), Date.getHours()
public void shallowCopy1() {
    // let's use Date, since it's mutable.
    LinkedStack<Date> s = new LinkedStack<Date>();
    Date d = new Date();
    d.setHours(17);
    s.push(d);
    LinkedStack<Date> s2 =(LinkedStack<Date>) s.shallowCopy();
    Date d2=s2.pop();
    // The shallow copy should contain references to the same objects
    // as the original.
    assertTrue(d == d2);
    // So, we can change the Date in the original list using the Date that
    // came from the shallow copy.
    d2.setHours(14);
    assertTrue(d.getHours() == 14);
    // I don't usually put two asserts in one test, but this seems like 
    // an instructive example.
}
@Test(expected=NoSuchElementException.class)
public void shallowCopy2() {
    LinkedStack<Integer> s1 = new LinkedStack<Integer>();
    for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
        s1.push(i);
    }       
    LinkedStack<Integer> s2 =(LinkedStack<Integer>) s1.shallowCopy();
    s2.push(10); // supposed to only affect s2
    s2.push(11); // supposed to only affect s2
    for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
        s1.pop();
    }       
    int last = s1.pop(); // should throw
}
@Test
public void shallowCopy3() {
    LinkedStack<Integer> q1 = new LinkedStack<Integer>();
    for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
        q1.push(i);
    }       
    LinkedStack<Integer> q2 =(LinkedStack<Integer>) q1.shallowCopy();
    //Let's check that the order of elements is correct in the copy.
    for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
        int v1=q1.pop();
        int v2=q2.pop();
        assertEquals(v1, v2);
    }               
}
If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. This is a Homework Problem.
 
    

