Java Override challenge how to do it

Question

I put in this code @Override public String toString() { return "\' BlogPost: TITLE by AUTHOR' "; } //the above code was put in between this code below mCreationDate = creationDate; } // and this code below and public String getAuthor() { What needs to be done to pass this challenge? Thanks!

com/example/BlogPost.java

package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
    private String mAuthor;
    private String mTitle;
    private String mBody;
    private String mCategory;
    private Date mCreationDate;

    public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
      mAuthor = author;
      mTitle = title;
      mBody = body;
      mCategory = category;
      mCreationDate = creationDate;
    }
  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "\'BlogPost: TITLE by AUTHOR'";
  }

    public String getAuthor() {
      return mAuthor;
    }

    public String getTitle() {
      return mTitle;
    }

    public String getBody() {
      return mBody;
    }

    public String getCategory() {
      return mCategory;
    }

    public Date getCreationDate() {
      return mCreationDate;
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2016-05-26T02:55:59Z

May 26, 2016 2:55am

Hello Sarah. You have to return the values of the member variables or the fields in one string.

Try the following

@Override
  public String toString() {
    return "BlogPost: " + mTitle + " by " + mAuthor;
  }

Answer 2 · 2016-05-25T18:03:41Z

May 25, 2016 6:03pm

Hi Sarah - Instead of TITLE and AUTHOR you need to use the actual tile and author of the blog post. So use mTitle and mAuthor and string concatenation to return the correct string.

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