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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) The Model-View-Controller Pattern Creating a Data Model

Posted by Hammad Shafiq
Hammad Shafiq
623 Points

The code is correct but the compiler gives an error

I am getting the same error "Bummer! The naming convention ... " although I am typing the correct name

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship{
  public String mType;

  public String getVariableName(){return mType;}
}

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You are interpreting the instructions a bit too literally, the naming convention for a getter is not literally the name "getVariableName" but the word "get" followed by the name of the variable you are getting minus the m that the variable name starts with.

So for a getter for the mType variable, the correct name would be getType, if you had a variable called mName the getter name would be getName and so on.

Hammad Shafiq
Hammad Shafiq
623 Points

Thank you so much! Brilliant explanation. It did solve my problem.