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Java Local Development Environments Exploring Your IDE Clean up this mess

Posted by T Hudson
T Hudson
5,966 Points

Receiving a compiler error on Challenge Task 5 of 5 on Messy.

Why am I receiving a compiler error on Challenge Task 5 of 5 on the Messy problem. It compiles without a problem on IntelliJ. Please advise.

Messy.java 
public class Messy {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("one");
        System.out.println("two");
        System.out.println("three");
        System.out.println("four");
        System.out.println("five");

   /* Please comment out this line and
    this line as well with a hotkey that does multi-line commenting*/

        List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine");
        for (String numberWord : numberWords) {
            System.out.println(numberWord);
        }
    }
}
results.txt 
/Users/tonkahudson/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-16.0.1/Contents/Home/bin/java -javaagent:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA CE.app/Contents/lib/idea_rt.jar=49790:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA CE.app/Contents/bin -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /Users/tonkahudson/IdeaProjects/MessyAgain/out/production/MessyAgain Messy
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine

Process finished with exit code 0

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi T Hudson

It seems that you are missing the imports. When you run the reformatting the IDE should have refactored the wildcard import into two separate imports. 

import java.util.Array;  
import java.util.List;

Your code now will receive a syntax error because it doesn't have the methods imported needed for the code. Once you put those back, it will pass.

Nice work. :) :dizzy:

T Hudson
T Hudson
5,966 Points
T Hudson
T Hudson
5,966 Points

Hi Jason:

Thanks very much for your input! Unsure why reformatting the IDE didn't yield the refactoring of the imports. I was experiencing some IDE challenges, so I may have used the wrong version of my file, LOL. I'm a newbie and it's clear that you're at level: well-seasoned. I appreciate your timely reply.