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    justimagine
2,914 Pointshow may i use the arguments passed in from the main method in this program?
no idea what i am doing wrong on this code...
public class Forum {
  private String topic;
  // TODO: add a constructor that accepts a topic and sets the private field topic
  public Forum(String topic){
         this.topic=topic;
  }
  public String getTopic() {
         return topic;
  }
  // Uncomment this when you are prompted to do so
  public void addPost(ForumPost post) {
    System.out.printf("A new post in %s from %s %s about %s is available",
            topic,
            post.getAuthor().getFirstName(),
            post.getAuthor().getLastName(),
            post.getTitle());
  }
}
public class User {
  // TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName
  private String firstName;
  private String lastName;
  public User(String firstName, String lastName) {
    // TODO: set and add the private fields
         this.firstName=firstName;
         this.lastName=lastName;
  }
  // TODO: add getters for firstName and lastName
  public String getFirstName(){
         this.firstName=firstName;
         return firstName;
         }
  public String getLastName(){
         this.lastName=lastName;
         return lastName;
         }
}
public class ForumPost {
  private User author;
  private String title;
  private String description;
  // TODO: add a constructor that accepts the author, title and description
  public ForumPost(User author,String title, String description){
         this.author=new User(author.getFirstName(),author.getLastName());
         this.title=title;
         this.description=description;
         }
  public User getAuthor() {
         return author;
  }
  public String getTitle() {
    return title;
  }
  public String getDescription() {
    return description;
  }
}
public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Beginning forum example");
    if (args.length < 2) {
      System.out.println("Usage: java Main <first name> <last name>");
      System.err.println("<first name> and <last name> are required");
      System.exit(1);
    }
    // Uncomment this when prompted
    Forum forum = new Forum("java");
    // TODO: pass in the first name and last name that are in the args parameter
    User author = new User("Craig","Dennis");
    // TODO: initialize the forum post with the user created above and a title and description of your choice
    ForumPost post = new ForumPost(author,"java objects","java objects");
    forum.addPost(post);
    }
}
1 Answer
 
    Daniel Turato
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 30,124 PointsWhen creating the user, you have to get the first name from the args[] passed in the main method. So your code would look like this:
User author = new User(args[0], args[1]);