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Start your free trialTroy Childs
Courses Plus Student 5,203 Pointsneed help with getter and setter in this Code
not sure why this is giving me an errors message and anybody help with this?
public class User { // TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName private String firstName; private String lastName;
public User(String firstName, String lastName) { private String firstName; private String lastName;
public void setfirstName(String firstName){
firstName = firstName;
}
public void setlastName(String lastName){
this.lastName = lastName;
}
public String getFirstName(){
return firstName;
}
public String getlastName(){
return lastName;
}
} }
public class Forum {
private String topic;
// TODO: add a constructor that accepts a topic and sets the private field topic
public Forum(String topic){
topic = this.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 topic 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) {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
// TODO: set and add the private fields
public void setfirstName(String firstName){
firstName = firstName;
}
public void setlastName(String lastName){
this.lastName = lastName;
}
// TODO: add getters for firstName and lastName
public String getFirstName(){
return firstName;
}
public String getlastName(){
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 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();
// TODO: initialize the forum post with the user created above and a title and description of your choice
ForumPost post = new ForumPost();
forum.addPost(post);
// */
}
}
5 Answers
Jake Goodman
3,381 PointsIt seems that you forgot to put the "this" keyword in front of firstname in User.java. Change it to what I've shown below and let me know if it works!
public void setfirstName(String firstName){
this.firstName = firstName;
}
Troy Childs
Courses Plus Student 5,203 PointsHey Jake, i have done that but this is the error message i get....
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ParseException: com.github.javaparser.ParseException: Encountered " "public" "public "" at line 9, column 6. Was expecting one of: "assert" ... "boolean" ... "break" ... "byte" ... "char" ... "continue" ... "do" ... "double" ... "false" ... "float" ... "for" ... "if" ... "int" ... "long" ... "new" ... "null" ... "return" ... "short" ... "super" ... "switch" ... "synchronized" ... "this" ... "throw" ... "true" ... "try" ... "void" ... "while" ... <LONG_LITERAL> ... <INTEGER_LITERAL> ... <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ... <CHARACTER_LITERAL> ...
Jake Goodman
3,381 PointsOk, so the code looks fine. Did you uncomment the code where it says "Uncomment this when prompted"? You must uncomment blocks of code in Main.java and Forum.java
Troy Childs
Courses Plus Student 5,203 Pointsi don't think i was never prompted to uncomment anything
Troy Childs
Courses Plus Student 5,203 Pointsthis is the code that I'm using and it still not working
public class User { // TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName private String firstName; private String lastName;
public User(String firstName, String lastName) {
firstName = this.firstName;
lastName = this.lastName;
// TODO: set and add the private fields
public void setfirstName(String firstName){
firstName = firstName;
}
public void setlastName(String lastName){
this.lastName = lastName;
}
// TODO: add getters for firstName and lastName
public String getFirstName(){
return firstName;
}
public String getlastName(){
return lastName;
}
} }