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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) The Model-View-Controller Pattern Creating a Data Model

Posted by Robert Kendall
Robert Kendall
1,287 Points

Bummer! The naming convention is 'getVariableName' (without the 'm' prefix).

Using attached code, I was generating a getter and setter for a challenge. When I run the preview, it doesn't throw an error, but I receive the following error from the quiz.

I'm not sure how to interpret the error.

Bummer! The naming convention is 'getVariableName' (without the 'm' prefix).

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship {
  public String mType;

   public String getText() {
        return mType;
    }

    public void setText(String mType) {
        this.mType = mType;

}
}

1 Answer

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points
Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Robert,

Although the error message is talking about the 'm' prefix, the issue it's having is that it isn't anticipating the names you have for your getter and setter methods--the challenge will pass if you rename those methods to getType and setType. Since getting and setting the type is what your methods are doing, those names are a little clearer about what exactly your methods are doing, too:

   public String getType() {

and

    public void setType(String mType) {

Hope this helps!