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Java Java Data Structures Organizing Data Comparable

Ronald Greer
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Ronald Greer
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,430 Points

still not working

i was on task 2 when treehouse crashed. before none of my code was passing

com/example/BlogPost.java
package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;

  public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
    mAuthor = author;
    mTitle = title;
    mBody = body;
    mCategory = category;
    mCreationDate = creationDate;
  }

  public String[] getWords() {
    return mBody.split("\\s+");
  }

  public String getAuthor() {
    return mAuthor;
  }

  public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
  }

  public String getBody() {
    return mBody;
  }

  public String getCategory() {
    return mCategory;
  }

  public Date getCreationDate() {
    return mCreationDate;
  }
}
Denis Migounov
Denis Migounov
17,657 Points

As is, this code will not pass task 1. You need to implement the Comparable interface, like so:

public class BlogPost implements Comparable { ... }

and implement the compareTo method:

@Override public int compareTo(Object obj) { return 1; }

1 Answer

my code is exactly the same except that i did not write "@override" and that worked for me. So maybe try deleting that. but i can't explain why this is a good solution.