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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Getting There Packages

Abdullah Nazeer
Abdullah Nazeer
239 Points
Posted by Abdullah Nazeer
Abdullah Nazeer
239 Points

What's wrong with my code?

What's wrong with my code

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

public class BlogPost;
Display.java 
import com.example.BlogPost;

public class Display {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
  BlogPost blogPost= new BlogPost();
  System.out.printf("This is a new blogpost:",blogPost);

  }
}

1 Answer

Joseph Wasden
Joseph Wasden
20,407 Points
Joseph Wasden
Joseph Wasden
20,407 Points

There are two errors that we need to address:

(1) the class declaration in BlogPost.Java (2) The missing placeholder in the printf String

(1) When declaring a class, you need to include the code block for that class, a code block is defined by a pair of curly braces. See below.

//BLogPost.Java

package com.example;

public class BlogPost {
//this is the code inside the declared code block
}

(2) You are missing the %s placeholder in your printf string. Without this, the variable declaration after the string has no defined location to appear in the string. See below.

import com.example.BlogPost;

public class Display {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
  BlogPost blogPost= new BlogPost();
  System.out.printf("This is a new blogpost: %s", blogPost); // <-- notice the %s inside the string

  }
}
mongst
mongst
10,841 Points

Thank you! This helped me as well. +1