basic help with a decorator

[javaduck]

HI there,
I know little about java and I hope someone can help me,
My problem is that I must use a decorator pattern and I have a method where I must give a choice in the main method for when a object (in this case an Account) is created it can be of an account object or a TestingAccountable object. The choice must be of the agrument (t) for TestingAccountable.
I suppose and 'if' statement should be used but I am not sure and if so how excatly should I do it.

As you can see I am new at this game!!!!1

Cheers

[ArchAngel]

I can't quite follow what you want and I don't really see what the Decorator pattern has got to do with this, but I'm assuming you want something like:

  class Account {
  }

  class TestingAccountable extends Account {
  }

  class MyClass { 
     public Account getAccount(int type) {
        Account acc;
        if (type == 0) {
          acc = new Account();
        }
        else {
          acc = new TestingAccountable();
        }
        return acc;
     }
  }

I'm really guessing here as I couldn't follow what you posted and you didn't post any code.

(BTW, it seems really strange that you're even thinking about design patterns if you've only just started Java - did your lecturer talk to you about the Decorator pattern?)