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

Eros Lombardi
Eros Lombardi
1,330 Points
Posted by Eros Lombardi
Eros Lombardi
1,330 Points

Make sure you set mType in the constructor

The challenge asks to create a constructor with no parameters and to assign the value "SHUTTLE" to the variable mType. That's what I did and I keep getting the "Make sure you set mType in the constructor" error. Any idea on what am I doing wrong?

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship {
    public String mType;

    public String getType() {
      return mType;
    }

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

    public void setType() {
      mType = "SHUTTLE";
    }  
}

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

The constructor must have the same name as the class and no return type:

public Spaceship() {
    mType = "SHUTTLE";
}