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Java

Posted by Bianca Christian
Bianca Christian
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Im completing a polymorphism task and unsure how to 'implement an abstract method' across 3 classes

The instructions are:

  1. In the Animal class: add a new abstract method eat() that takes a Food object as an argument.
  2. .provide an implementation for eat(). In each case print out a message saying that the animal is eating the given food. 3.. update Wolf class and Parrot class so that Wolf extends Carnivore and Parrot extends Omnivore.

This is what i have so far import java.time.LocalDate; import java.time.Period; public abstract class Omnivore extends Animal{

public Omnivore(LocalDate dob, String n){   
    super(dob, n);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    omni.eat(Meat);
}

}

import java.time.LocalDate; import java.time.Period; public abstract class Animal { int age; String name; LocalDate dateOfBirth;
Wolf wolf1; Food foodObj;

//constructor with parameters of date and name
public Animal(LocalDate dob, String name){
    dateOfBirth = dob;
    this.name = name;
}
//removed irrelevant code 

//guaranteeing that subclasses will provide a noise
public abstract void makeNoise(String noise);

public abstract void eat(Food foodObj);

}