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Thread: Dog Tester Class

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    Default Dog Tester Class

    // Tester for Dog class
    // Marcus Ward
    // 11/02/2012

    public class DogTester
    {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    Dog firstDog = new Dog();

    firstDog.setName("Rover");
    firstDog.setBreed("Alsatian");
    firstDog.setHeight("23");

    System.out.print(firstDog.toString());

    }
    }

    Error:
    DogTester.java:13: setHeight(int) in Dog cannot be applied to (java.lang.String)
    firstDog.setHeight("23");
    ^
    1 error


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    Default Re: Dog Tester Class

    The setHeight() method of the Dog class takes in an integer parameter, you're passing it a String.
    Remove the surrounding quotes from 23 and it should work.
    Please use [highlight=Java]//code goes here...[/highlight] tags when posting your code

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    Default Re: Dog Tester Class

    Quote Originally Posted by mwardjava92 View Post
    // Tester for Dog class
    // Marcus Ward
    // 11/02/2012

    public class DogTester
    {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    Dog firstDog = new Dog();

    firstDog.setName("Rover");
    firstDog.setBreed("Alsatian");
    firstDog.setHeight("23");

    System.out.print(firstDog.toString());

    }
    }

    Error:
    DogTester.java:13: setHeight(int) in Dog cannot be applied to (java.lang.String)
    firstDog.setHeight("23");
    ^
    1 error
    Besides the wrong argument type passed to the setHeight method, what did you expect to be printed out to the screen after calling the System.out.println() method on that dog object? Printing firstDog.toString will not give you the name, breed, and height as it seems you expect in the above code. good luck.

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    Default Re: Dog Tester Class

    Quote Originally Posted by elisha.java View Post
    Besides the wrong argument type passed to the setHeight method, what did you expect to be printed out to the screen after calling the System.out.println() method on that dog object? Printing firstDog.toString will not give you the name, breed, and height as it seems you expect in the above code. good luck.
    How can you be so sure? Maybe he has actually overridden toString to print his own message.
    Last edited by newbie; February 11th, 2012 at 05:24 PM. Reason: add E onto messagE
    Please use [highlight=Java]//code goes here...[/highlight] tags when posting your code

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    Default Re: Dog Tester Class

    I should have mentioned that possibility. Yeah, if he has overridden that method, well and good.

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