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Posted by tuukka uosukainen
tuukka uosukainen
22,107 Points

IntelliJ Cannot resolve symbol 'CourseIdea'?

Hi all,

I am new to Java web development and IntelliJ so bear with me. I am following the course and everything is fine until the point when I am creating this line of code:

public interface CourseIdeaDAO {
    boolean add(CourseIdea idea);
}

CourseIdea turns to red and I get: Cannot resolve symbol. I've tried to: Invalidate Caches/ restart but it doesn't help. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

Happy coding!

Tuukka

1 Answer

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

It doesn't recognise CourseIdea as a type. Have you created a class with this name? If so, you might need an import statement.

tuukka uosukainen
tuukka uosukainen
22,107 Points

Thanks a million Simon!

Hate to admit this, but yes, it was typo...

Feeling very stupid is part of the game, I guess :)