Java Data Structure How to override the toString methode challenge.

Question

I cant get it done. I think it has something to do with the quotes? Please help by showing me what you did.

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 String getAuthor() {
      return mAuthor;
    }

    public String getTitle() {
      return mTitle;
    }

    public String getBody() {
      return mBody;
    }

    public String getCategory() {
      return mCategory;
    }

    public Date getCreationDate() {
      return mCreationDate;
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2015-07-29T16:29:08Z

July 29, 2015 4:29pm

To override toString() you just need to add the method to your class:

public String toString() {
  return mTitle;
}

In my example the toString method returns just the title of the post, you can return whatever you like, though, try to return something meaningful.

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