Thread: Creating objects from methods

public class demo
{ 
Public class static void main(String[]args)
{
//Creating a variable that will be a reference to the object
Peoples person_one;
 
//create an object using void method
 
Create_object(person_one);
}
 
Public static void Create_object(Peoples object)
{
Object=new Peoples();
}

I have assembled this code below that has a void method which will creat a new object. Problem I encounter is that in

Create_object(person_one);

the person_one has an error saying not initialized. I'm jus trying to learn on my own ways here and practice so may know what's wrong with this? I know I can use a return object from methods but what about this approach?

Thank your for your response! I'm aware that's not the conventional way of writing a code; however, I was using my ipad during that time. Apologize for my mistake. Also, I did peak on to the links your provided and they were helpful. Meanwhile for my code, as I have fixed it

 
public class demo
 
{ 
Public class static void main(String[]args)
{
//Creating a variable that will be a reference to the object
Peoples person_one;
 
//create an object using public void method. This line of code will call the create_object method and make a object referenced to person_one
create_object(person_one);
}
 
//This function will take in an argument of type People(a People Class) and create an object
public static void Create_object(Peoples object)
{
object=new Peoples();
}

I'm getting my error on

create_object(person_one);

person_one is where I'm getting an error on. All my error says is that

HTML Code:

local variable person_one may not have been initialized

. I hope this did help! Thank you in advance for taking your time to help me!

I do understand what the error is. Basically the variable is not initialized to any value. From my understanding and from what I have read, when passing objects to methods, the reference variable is passed instead of value. I'm just having trouble understanding why I have an initialization error. I know if I make a method that returns an object this will works but why not here?

Ok, so I'm reading my java book and this is what it reads

when an object is passed as an argument, it is actually a reference to the object that is passed

. The book also mentions that

when a variable is passed as an argument to a method, it is said to be passed by value.

Either I'm interpreting this wrong, which I believe I am, or I doubt your actually wrong since your more expierenced

Now suppose you are correct about this, then in my book there is this following code

public class PassObject
{
public static void main(String[]args)
{
//Create an inventoryItem object
InventoryItem item=new InventoryIem("Wrench",20);
 
//Pass the object to displayItem method.
displayItem(item);
}
pblic static void displayItem(InventoryItem I)
{
System.out.println(i.getDescription());
}
}

Like you said that it is passed by value, then I visually can't see what value is being passed on to my method that has the object argument in it.