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Java Java Objects Delivering the MVP Forum

Posted by teritm
teritm
7,421 Points

Make sure you add a private String field to the User class named firstName...

I thought using

"this.firstName = firstName; " in User.java

makes the field private..

but ...I keep on getting this error message.

User.java 
public class User {
  // TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName

  public User(String firstName, String lastName) {
    // TODO: set and add the private fields

  this.firstName = firstName;
  this.lastName = lastName;
  }

  public String getFirstName ()  {
    return firstName;
  }
  public String getLastName() {
    return lastName;
  }
  // TODO: add getters for firstName and lastName

}

[MOD: edited code out for brevity - srh]

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi there,

At the top of the User class where the TODO comment is, you want to declare two private member variables that are of type String; the challenge tells you their names.

The addition of this inside the constructor doesn't make them private. And you can't assign anything to this.firstName unless the class has a member variable called firstName.

It would look like this:

public class User {
  // TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName
  private String firstName;
  private String lastName;

Let me know how you get on.

Steve.