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Dog Tester Class
// Tester for Dog class
// Marcus Ward
// 11/02/2012
public class DogTester
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Dog firstDog = new Dog();
firstDog.setName("Rover");
firstDog.setBreed("Alsatian");
firstDog.setHeight("23");
System.out.print(firstDog.toString());
}
}
Error:
DogTester.java:13: setHeight(int) in Dog cannot be applied to (java.lang.String)
firstDog.setHeight("23");
^
1 error
Related threads:
Re: Dog Tester Class
The setHeight() method of the Dog class takes in an integer parameter, you're passing it a String.
Remove the surrounding quotes from 23 and it should work.
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mwardjava92 (February 11th, 2012)
Re: Dog Tester Class
Besides the wrong argument type passed to the setHeight method, what did you expect to be printed out to the screen after calling the System.out.println() method on that dog object? Printing firstDog.toString will not give you the name, breed, and height as it seems you expect in the above code. good luck.Originally Posted by mwardjava92
Re: Dog Tester Class
How can you be so sure? Maybe he has actually overridden toString to print his own message.
Last edited by newbie; February 11th, 2012 at 05:24 PM. Reason: add E onto messagE
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Re: Dog Tester Class
I should have mentioned that possibility. Yeah, if he has overridden that method, well and good.
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