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Java Java Objects (Retired) Creating the MVP Prompting for Guesses

Adia Gawhari
Adia Gawhari
1,378 Points
Posted by Adia Gawhari
Adia Gawhari
1,378 Points

Error : missing return statement

I keep getting this error: missing return statement }. But I'm sure that I have closed all my curly brackets.

public class Game { private String mAnswer; private String mHits; private String mMisses;

public Game(String answer) { mAnswer = answer; mHits = ""; mMisses = ""; }

public boolean applyGuess(char letter) { boolean isHit = mAnswer.indexOf(letter) >= 0; if (isHit) { mHits += letter; } else { mMisses += letter; } } }

tobiaskrause
tobiaskrause
9,160 Points 
public class Game { 
  private String mAnswer; 
  private String mHits; 
  private String mMisses;

public Game(String answer) { 
  mAnswer = answer;
   mHits = "";
    mMisses = ""; 
  }

public boolean applyGuess(char letter) 
{ 
  boolean isHit = mAnswer.indexOf(letter) >= 0; 
  if (isHit) 
  { 
    mHits += letter; 
  } else
   { mMisses += letter;
    } 
  } 
}

This is more readable And here is everything about return statements......easy google search https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/returnvalue.html

BTW: you should use foreach to search for letters, that is far more common

2 Answers

Rohit Tolawat
Rohit Tolawat
8,277 Points
Rohit Tolawat
Rohit Tolawat
8,277 Points

Hi Adia, Although I am not sure of what you are trying to achieve, but one of the issue I found from the code is as below: public boolean applyGuess(char letter) method has a return type of boolean. But you don't seem to return any boolean in that method. If you don't want to return anything, change the return type as void in the method signature.

Hope it solves the issue highlighted.

dusanveljkovic
dusanveljkovic
1,035 Points
dusanveljkovic
dusanveljkovic
1,035 Points

you are missing return statement on the end.

public boolean applyGuess(char letter){ boolean isHit = mAnswer.indexOf(letter) >=0; if(isHit){ mHits += letter; }else{ mMisses +=letter; }

return isHit;

} }

Adia Gawhari
Adia Gawhari
1,378 Points
Adia Gawhari
Adia Gawhari
1,378 Points

Thank you all so much!