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Java Java Objects Harnessing the Power of Objects Method Overloading

Zak Manz
Zak Manz
1,390 Points

Unable to call the PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda"); in Jshell

jshell> PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
| Error:
| cannot find symbol
| symbol: class PezDispenser
| PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
| ^----------^
| Error:
| cannot find symbol
| symbol: class PezDispenser
| PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
| ^----------^

class PezDispenser { public static final int MAX_PEZ = 12; final private String characterName; private int pezCount;

public PezDispenser(String characterName) { this.characterName = characterName; pezCount = 0; }

public void fill() { pezCount = MAX_PEZ; } public void fill(int pezAmount){ pezCount += pezAmount; } public boolean dispense() { boolean wasDispensed = false; if (!isEmpty()) { pezCount--; wasDispensed = true; } return wasDispensed;

} public boolean isEmpty() { return pezCount == 0; } public String getCharacterName() { return characterName; } }

public class Example {

public static void main(String[] args) { // Your amazing code goes here... System.out.println("We are making a new PEZ Dispenser"); System.out.printf("FUN FACT: There are %d PEZ allowed in every dispenser %n", PezDispenser.MAX_PEZ);

PezDispenser dispenser = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
System.out.printf("The dispenser is %s %n",
                  dispenser.getCharacterName()
                 );
if (dispenser.isEmpty()) {
  System.out.println("Dispenser is empty");

}
  System.out.println("Filling the dispenser with delicious PEZ..");
 dispenser.fill();

if (!dispenser.isEmpty()) {              
  System.out.println("Dispenser is full");

} while (dispenser.dispense()) { System.out.println("Chomp!"); } if (dispenser.isEmpty()) { System.out.println("Ate all the PEZ");

}

} }

2 Answers

It's kinda hard to understand what the problem is since your code is not formatted properly. Can you explain what you are having trouble with?

Zak Manz
Zak Manz
1,390 Points

Hi Rajbie,

Thank you for the reply, I reworked my code and I managed to get this to work.

there seems to be an issue in jshell. I am having trouble as well intializing a new PezDispenser object. I get the same error.