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Android Build an Interactive Story App The Model-View-Presenter Pattern Creating a Data Model

Posted by Prosper moyo
Prosper moyo
1,876 Points

PLEASE help i cant find my error

Next, we need getter and setter methods for our member variable. Let's start with the getter method. Add a method to get the value of shipType.

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship{
  public String shipType;
 public String getshipType(){ return shipType;
}

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Prosper;

Getters and Setters in Java have a variable name convention of getVariableName. Therefore, the variable name should be getShipType, not getshipType. Also, you're missing a closing curly bracket after the return statement. :-)

Post back if you're still stuck.
Ken

Prosper moyo
Prosper moyo
1,876 Points

./Spaceship.java:2: error: cannot find symbol public String getshipType(){ return shipType; ^ symbol: variable shipType location: class Spaceship 1 error