why is this not working? it is showing make sure it has getAge and getName and i do, so it should work right?

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package com.codegym.task.task05.task0503; /* Getters and setters for the Dog class */ public class Dog { //write your code here String name; int age; public void setName(String x) { this.name = x; } public static String getName(Dog o) { return o.name; } public void setAge(int y) { this.age = y; } public static int getAge(Dog o) { return o.age; } public static void main(String[] args) { } }

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Girish Patel

Level 8 , Hyderabad, India

18 September 2019, 10:25

In your code, you need to pass an object to get the value from getters. But in getters syntex no need to pass any parameters. Because getters are used only to get the value. You need to remove (Dog o) from your all getters.

Ivaylo Trifonov

Level 22 , Madrid, Spain

18 March 2019, 18:56

Guadalupe Gagnon is right. The function of the getter method is to return (give to us) some value, in this case, the dog's name and age. With that said, there is no need to input any information (parameters). In your case, your getName method returns the name of a Dog object, not the name of your class instance variable "name". let me explain with a small example: We create 2 Dog objects, the first one (dog1) gets the name of "Rex", and the second one (dog2) "Spike". We call the getName() on dog1, but we put as an argument dog2: "System.out.println(dog1.getName(dog2)); We will get "Spike", and that is not correct, this is the dog2 name, not the dog1. The getter method doesn't need parameters. Hope this helps.

Dog dog1 = new Dog();
Dog dog2 = new Dog();

dog1.setName("Rex");
dog2.setName("Spike");

        System.out.println(dog1.getName(dog2));

Guadalupe Gagnon

Level 37 , Tampa, United States

17 March 2019, 15:33

Both get methods should not have any parameters or be static, the correct code would be:

public <returnTypeOfX> getX(){
   return X
}

X would be the variable that you want to 'get'