6 and 7 won't validate

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The game works and pressing left and right do indeed make the car move in those proper directions, but alas, the validator won't have any of it. Anyone figure out what it wants specifically? The task isn't even hard, to be honest. My code probably looks strange because I tried every possible way of putting it to see if it would work. My earlier attempts would have looked more simple (no getters and setters, just this.x = x + 1, or this.x++;)

Along the horizontal axis, the car can move right, left, or not at all. To indicate these directions, create a Direction enum with the following fields. RIGHT, LEFT, NONE.
The player's car must have a field that stores the direction of motion (Direction direction). We'll access it through a getter and setter.

In the PlayerCar class, create a move() method that changes the car's coordinates along the horizontal axis depending on its direction of motion. This method will be called in moveAll().
To handle key presses, override the onKeyPress(Key) method. Depending on which key is pressed, use a setter to set the appropriate direction of the player's car.

Requirements:

There must be a public Direction enum with the following values in a separate file: NONE, RIGHT, LEFT.
The PlayerCar class must have a private Direction direction field.
The PlayerCar class must have a public setDirection(Direction) setter that sets the value of the direction field.
The PlayerCar class must have a public getDirection() getter that returns the value of the direction field.
The PlayerCar class must have a public void move() method.
In the PlayerCar class's move() method, if the direction field is equal to Direction.LEFT, the x coordinate must be reduced by one.
In the PlayerCar class's move() method, if the direction field is equal to Direction.RIGHT, the x coordinate must be increased by one.
In the RacerGame class's moveAll() method, the move() method must be called on the player object.
In the RacerGame class, the onKeyPress(Key) method of the Game parent class must be overridden.
The onKeyPress(Key) method must set the player's direction to Direction.RIGHT if the method's parameter is equal to Key.RIGHT.
The onKeyPress(Key) method must set the player's direction to Direction.LEFT if the method's parameter is equal to Key.LEFT.

package com.codegym.games.racer; public enum Direction { RIGHT, LEFT, NONE }

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Dave Andrea

Level 41 , Canada

9 September 2020, 15:10

solution

It turns out, all it wanted me to do differently was use the direction field directly and not the getter. Like so:

public void move() {
        if (direction == Direction.LEFT) {
            x--;
        }
        if (direction == Direction.RIGHT) {
            x++;
        }

Nouser

Level 36 , Germany

5 September 2020, 17:24

subtract 1 if direction is left and try equals instead of ==

Dave Andrea

Level 41 , Canada

5 September 2020, 18:26

I can't believe I put x + 1 for both directions LOL. That being said, following both of your suggestions did not lead to validation. I might need to reset the task and redo it, just in case I changed some tiny detail that I wasn't supposed to.