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Initializing cats

Java Syntax, Level 5, Lesson 7

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On line 19 it says I'm missing a method body and I don't know how to fix it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Create a Cat class with five initializers:
- Name,
- Name, weight, age
- Name, age (standard weight)
- Weight, color (unknown name, address and age, i.e. a homeless cat)
- Weight, color, address (someone else's pet)

The initializer's job is to make the object valid.
For example, if the weight is unknown, then you need to specify some average weight.
A cat can't weigh nothing.
The same applies to age and color.
But there may or may not be a name (i.e. name might be null).
The same applies to the address (it might be null).

Requirements:

The program must not read data from the keyboard.
The Cat class must have a String variable name.
The Cat class must have an int variable age.
The Cat class must have an int variable weight.
The Cat class must have a String variable address.
The Cat class must have a String variable color.
The class must have an initialize method that takes a name as an argument, but initializes all variables except the address.
The class must have an initialize method that takes a name, weight, and age as arguments, but initializes all variables except the address.
The class must have an initialize method that takes a name and age as arguments, and initializes all variables except the address.
The class must have an initialize method that takes a weight and color as arguments, and initializes all variables except the name and address.
The class must have an initialize method that takes a weight, color, and address as arguments, but initializes all variables except the name.

package com.codegym.task.task05.task0510; /* Initializing cats */ public class Cat { String name;//write your code here int age = 2; int weight = 5; String color = "black"; String address; public void initialize (String name){ this.name = name; } public void initialize(String name, int weight, int age);{ this.name = name; this.weight = weight; this.age = age; } public void initialize (String name, int age){ this.name = name; this.age = age; } public void initialize (int weight, String color){ this.weight = weight; this.color = color; } public void initialize (int weight, String color, String address){ this.weight = weight; this.color = color; this.address = address; } public static void main(String[] args) { } }

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Carli Eubanks

Level 15 , San Diego, United States

23 September 2020, 23:36

Thanks! I feel silly for not catching that

Misiu

Level 41 , Gdansk, Poland

23 September 2020, 23:18

solution

Semicolon to remove. "A cat can't weigh nothing. The same applies to age and color."

public void initialize (String name){
        this.name = name;
        weight = 5;
        ...................
}