Java, printing a getter returns a weird value??

Now i excpected to get back {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}, but instead i get "[I@5f150435". Is that like a memory location or something, and if so, how would i print the actual array? Ty in advance!

It's actually mainly the array's hashCode. It gets printed because the println method automatically calls the array's toString method. toString is a method that all objects in Java have and that by default simply prints the class name of an object and its hashCode. A lot of classes override this method so that it returns a more useful String representation of the object, but that is not done for array objects.

There are various ways of printing out the array, the simplest is likely to use the Arrays.toString method. In order use this method you have to import java.util.Arrays into your program.

Here is a code example:

import java.util.Arrays; // Import the class

class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Game game = new Game();
    int[] test = game.getBoard();
    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(test)); // Call the toString method on the array
  }
}

That will print out:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

If you don't want to import anything then the simplest option would likely be to use a foreach loop. Like this:

class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Game game = new Game();
    int[] test = game.getBoard();
    for (int item : test) { // Create a loop that goes through the array
        System.out.println(item); // Print out each item of the array on a separate line
    }
  }
}

That will print out this:

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

If you wanted to print out the numbers on one line you could replace the println method with the print method.