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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Efficiency! Add tags to a course

Andre Kucharzyk
Andre Kucharzyk
4,479 Points
Posted by Andre Kucharzyk
Andre Kucharzyk
4,479 Points

What am I doing wrong?

I get compiler error after I submit first task. First task is to initialise a Set of Strings. What am I doing wrong?

JavaTester.java:67: error: constructor Course in class Course cannot be applied to given types; Course course = new Course("Java Data Structures"); ^ required: String,Set found: String reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length Note: JavaTester.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations. Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. 1 error

com/example/model/Course.java 
package com.example.model;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

public class Course {
  private String mTitle;
  private Set<String> mTags;

  public Course(String title, Set<String> tags) {
    mTitle = title;
    // TODO: initialize the set mTags
    mTags = tags;
  }

  public void addTag(String tag) {
    // TODO: add the tag
  }

  public void addTags(List<String> tags) {
    // TODO: add all the tags passed in
  }

  public boolean hasTag(String tag) {
    // TODO: Return whether or not the tag has been added
    return false;
  }

  public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
  }

}

1 Answer

Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points
Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points

Hi Andre....

The challenge asked you to initialize a Set of Strings called mTags. You need to make brand new empty Set and wrapped it with HashSet or TreeSet to be able to process in future challenge. The initialization will create new empty HashSet or TreeSet which designed to accept Strings in the future. Thus the code should be like:

package com.example.model;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.HashSet;//<- don't forget to import this HashSet class is not included as object by default in Java compiler

public class Course {
  private String mTitle;
  private Set<String> mTags;

  public Course(String title, Set<String> tags) {
    mTitle = title;
    // TODO: initialize the set mTags
//  mTags = tags;<- this is assigning, what you need to do is initializing new empty HashSet for future usage
    mTags = new HashSet<String>(); //<- this is how you should initialize the Set
  }

I hope this can help a little. Happy coding