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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Comparable

Comparable task 1/3 what am I doing wrong?

I have implemented it into the code. When I do @Override like in the video, it gives me an error. Please help me get unstuck, thank you a lot :).

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;
  }

  public int compareTo(Object obj){
   return 1; 
  }

  public String[] getWords() {
    return mBody.split("\\s+");
  }

  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;
  }
}

1 Answer

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Alexander,

The error message tells us that the class still needs to implement the Comparable method, which is an interface that we need.

public class BlogPost implements Comparable {

Hope this helps!

Thank you a lot!