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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Adapting Data for Display in a List Finishing Our AsyncTask

Posted by Niranjan Deodhar
Niranjan Deodhar
Courses Plus Student 1,941 Points

Step 2 of this challenge

I passed step one, yet on step 2, I get told to make sure mStatus is set using the result variable - is there some error in the code checker here?

@Override protected void onPostExecute(String result) { String mStatus = result; updateStatusLabel(); }

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

you redeclared the mStatus variable. its already been declared at the top of the file. just reference it using its name.

//below is the correct way to reference the mStatus member variable
@Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result)
    {
      //since it was already declared above, just use its name
      mStatus = result;
      updateStatusLabel();
    }

whereas before you had 

//this is incorrect
@Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result)
    {
      //you redeclared it here, dont do that
      String mStatus = result;
      updateStatusLabel();
    }
Niranjan Deodhar
PLUS
Niranjan Deodhar
Courses Plus Student 1,941 Points
Niranjan Deodhar
Niranjan Deodhar
Courses Plus Student 1,941 Points

Good point, thanks again, although I am still intrigued how I passed Step 1 of the challenge, the error in re-declaring mStatus happened at that step and yet I could get to step 2. But anyway, that's a side issue I guess, I can carry on for now. Best regards