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Java Java Objects Delivering the MVP Forum

William Steele
William Steele
1,739 Points
Posted by William Steele
William Steele
1,739 Points

Java objects final editor: the forum.

I'm on the last part and not quite sure what it's asking to make it work, when I just run a blank test with what's already written, pops up several errors. I was thinking it might need user input, but my implementation has caused further errors. So I'm currently stuck trying to figure out what step it is I should do.

2 Answers

Kyle McCullen
Kyle McCullen
16,639 Points
Kyle McCullen
Kyle McCullen
16,639 Points

After uncommenting the code it wants you to add parameters to the constructors. We added parameters to the User constructor to take a first and last name, which are provided by the args parameter (we know this from the comments). We also added parameters to our ForumPost constructor, a User object a title and description so we must add them to the instantiation of our post object.

//Uncomment this when prompted
    Forum forum = new Forum("Java");
    // TODO: pass in the first name and last name that are in the args parameter
    User author = new User(args[0], args[1]);
    // TODO: initialize the forum post with the user created above and a title and description of your choice
    ForumPost post = new ForumPost(author, "Title here", "Description Here");
    forum.addPost(post);
Yusuf Mohamed
Yusuf Mohamed
2,631 Points

Why is there "" around the title and the description 

ForumPost post = new ForumPost(author, "Title here", "Description Here");
Kyle McCullen
Kyle McCullen
16,639 Points

Double quotes denote a string.

Yusuf Mohamed
Yusuf Mohamed
2,631 Points

Yes, I understood that it's a string but in this case shouldn't the title and description be dynamic or is the strings that we have written only some little text for where we are writing the actual forum post?

William Steele
William Steele
1,739 Points
William Steele
William Steele
1,739 Points

Forum forum = new Forum("Java"); constructor Forum in class Forum cannot be applied to given types

The rest is title, description, and .get errors, which I can solve, this one has been bugging me out