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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Getting There Class Review

Posted by Alfred Calayag
Alfred Calayag
1,391 Points

I declared private variables in the BlogPost class, but the error is telling me I didn't. What am I doing wrong?

Error Msg: "Bummer! Please add private member variables for author, title, body, category and creation date."

I declared variables for example: 'private String mAuthor', and the same for the other variables except date being of the Date type. I also made sure to import java.util.Date but that's not the error. There's no compiler errors so I'm thinking its a runtime error that it just not obvious to me.

com/example/BlogPost.java 
package com.example;
import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mDate;

  public BlogPost(String author, String title, String category, Date date) {
    mAuthor = author;
    mTitle = title;
    mCategory = category;
    mDate = date;
  }
}

1 Answer

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

It looks like you're at least missing the member variable for the body.

Alfred Calayag
Alfred Calayag
1,391 Points

Thanks James! That did it. I completely missed the 'body' variable. Doh!

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

You're welcome, glad I could help, good luck with the rest of the course.