Why am i getting a bummer?

Question

It's telling me i need a semi-colon after my return toString statement. Any idea what it is?

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;
    }
    public String toString() {
      System.out.printf("BlogPost: %s by %s", mTitle, mAuthor);
    }
  return toString;
}

Answer 1 · 2015-05-23T18:31:10Z

May 23, 2015 6:31pm

Try to put the statement

return toString;

inside the toString() method

Maybe it helps....

Answer 2 · 2015-05-26T11:31:24Z

May 26, 2015 11:31am

Hi Abe,

Firstly, apologies for the slow response - I had a busy weekend.

I've had a go through this challenge and I can't get the string interpolation to work so I reverted to concatenation and just added the string up bit by bit. I'm sure there's a reason why the %s approach won't work, I'm just not sure what that is.

Next, you need to override the method with the keyword @Override. That gives the following code which ill get you through the challenge:

  @Override
  public String toString() {
       return ("BlogPost: " + mTitle + " by " + mAuthor);
    }

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Why am i getting a bummer?

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