Cannot find symbol error
With the following code:
/**
* TestActor is a console class that is used to test the Actor class.
*
* The initial version of TestActor instantiates an instance of Actor using
* the 'four parameter constructor' and then determines the Title of the
* actor's latest film.
*
* It is envisaged that students will write additional 'main' code
* to fully test their Actor class.
*
* Created:
*
* @author
* @version
*/
publicfinalclass TestActor{
publicstaticvoid main (String [] args){
// instantiate an instance of Actor without specifying their latest
// film
Actor myActor =new Actor ("Julie","Walters", 52, Actor.FEMALE);
System.out.println("(1) Lastest film is " + myActor.getFilmTitle () );
myActor.setFilmTitle ("Educating Rita");
System.out.println("(2) Lastest film is " + myActor.getFilmTitle () );
System.out.println("(3) Actor is:\n\n" + myActor.toString () +"<end>");
}// end of main method
}// end of class Actor
I get the followng error:
TestActor.java:25: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor Actor(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,int,int)
location: class Actor
Actor myActor = new Actor ("Julie", "Walters", 52, Actor.FEMALE);
^
1 error
I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on it for me as I'm having problems rectifying the error, thanks.
[2199 byte] By [
bmzra] at [2007-10-3 9:20:29]
Thanks for the reply, here is the Actor class:
public class Actor {
public static void main( String args[] ) {
}
//
/* Attribute Declarations */
//
/**
*
*/
/**
* Indicates that the gender is unknown.
*/
public static final int UNKNOWN = 0;
/**
* Indicates a <em>male</em> person.
*/
public static final int MALE = 1;
/**
* Indicates a <em>female</em> person.
*/
public static final int FEMALE = 2;
/** Specifies the first name of the person.
*
*/
private String firstName;
/** Specifies the last name (sometimes refered to as 'surname')
* of the person.
*/
private String lastName;
/** Specifies the age of the person, in
* the number of years of age (whole number of years)
*/
private int age;
/** This attribute indicates whether the person is
* male or female.
*/
private int gender;
// TODO - add an attribute to store the film title
//
private String filmTitle;
//
/* Constructor Declarations */
//
/** Default Constructor: Creates an instance of Actor with
* no specified values - default values assigned, firstName ("N/A"), lastName ("N/A"), age (0) and gender (UNKNOWN) and a default value of film title ("-None Specified-").
*/
public Actor () {
firstName = "N/A";
lastName = "N/A";
age = 0;
gender = UNKNOWN;
// TODO - Add the default value for film title
filmTitle = "-None Specified-";
} // end of Actor default constructor
/**
* Creates an instance of Actor with specified values for the
* first name, last name, age and gender of that person, and a default value of film title ("-None Specified-").
*
* @param pFirstName is the first name of the person
* @param pLastName is the last name of the person
* @param pAge is the age of the person, a whole number of years
* @param pGender is a value that specifies whether the person is male
* or female.
* @param pFilmTitle is the film title for the actor
*/
public Actor (String pFirstName, String pLastName, int pAge,
int pGender, String pFilmTitle) {
// assign argument values to instance attributes
firstName = pFirstName;
lastName = pLastName;
age = pAge;
gender = pGender;
// TODO - Add the default value for film title
filmTitle = pFilmTitle;
} // end of construnctor Actor four parameters
/**
* Creates an instance of Actor with specified values for the
* first name, last name, age, gender and the title of the actor's
* latest film.
*
* @param pFirstName is the first name of the person
* @param pLastName is the last name of the person
* @param pAge is the age of the person, a whole number of years
* @param pGender is a value that specifies whether the person is male
* or female.
* @param pFilmTitle is the title of the actor's latest film
*
*/
// TODO - Add the 'five parameter constructor
// ****
//
/* Method Declarations */
//
/**
* This method returns the first name of the person.
*
* @return the first name
*/
public String getFirstName () {
return firstName;
} // end of method
/**
* This method returns the last name of the person.
*
* @return the last name
*/
public String getLastName () {
return lastName;
} // end of method
/**
* This method acquires the gender information in the form
* of a string.
*
* @return the textual description of the gender
*/
public String getGenderName () {
if ( gender == Actor.MALE ) {
return "male";
} else if ( gender == Actor.FEMALE ) {
return "female";
} else {
return "unknown";
}
} // end of method
/**
* This method simply returns the numerical representation of the
* gender of the person.
*
* @return gender value
*/
public int getGender () {
return gender;
} // end of method
/**
* Gets the age of the person as of their most recently passed birthday
*
* @return age in number of years
*/
public int getAge () {
return age;
} // end of method
// TODO - add the assessor (get) method for the actor's latest film's title
//
public String getFilmTitle () {
return filmTitle;
} // end of method
/**
* Sets the first name of the person
*
* @param pFirstName is the first name of the person
*/
public void setFirstName (String pFirstName) {
firstName = pFirstName;
} // end of method
/**
* Sets the last name of the person
*
* @param pLastName is the last name of the person
*/
public void setLastName (String pLastName) {
lastName = pLastName;
} // end of method
/**
* Sets the gender of the person
*
* @param pGender is the gender of the person
*/
public void setGender (int pGender) {
gender = pGender;
} // end of method
/**
* Sets the age of the person
*
* @param pAge is the age of the person, in years, at his/her most
* recent birthday.
*/
public void setAge (int pAge) {
age = pAge;
} // end of method
// TODO - add the mutator (set) method for the actor's latest film's title
//
public void setFilmTitle (String pFilmTitle) {
filmTitle = pFilmTitle;
}
// TODO - modify the toString method so that the title of the actor's
// latest film is output too - EXACTLY as shown in the Exercise webpage.
//
/**
*
Obtains a textual representation of the Actor object.
*
NOTE: The output is terminated by a blank line.
*
* @return string representation of this instance of Actor
*/
public String toString () {
return "FirstName: " + firstName + "\nLastName: " + lastName +
"\nAge: " + age + "\nGender: " + getGenderName () + "\nLatest Film: " + filmTitle + "\n\n<end>";
} // end of toString method
} // end of class Person
Message was edited by:
bmzr
bmzra at 2007-7-15 4:33:49 >
