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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) The Model-View-Controller Pattern Adding a Custom Constructor

Posted by albert gregorio
albert gregorio
Courses Plus Student 866 Points

Hi there, sorry for asking, but can you help me out here ?... i cant figure out of what is wrong here in my code.thanks

The error says that i must make sure i put the mType to the constructor

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship {
    public String mType;
     public Spaceship() {
  mType = " SHUTTLE";
     }
    public String getType() {
      return mType;
    }

    public void setType(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }


}

1 Answer

Mahmoud Yousif
Mahmoud Yousif
5,053 Points
Mahmoud Yousif
Mahmoud Yousif
5,053 Points

What this challenge is asking you to do is to create a new constructor that takes a string parameter. When the object is constructed it will take a the string and place it in the mType member variable.

//This is the constructor they are asking for
public Spaceship(String type) {
mType = type;
}

//So when this object is constructed in the future, it will set the type, based on what is passed in creation
//example:
Spaceship spaceship = new Spaceship("Super type");