Re: Newbie Java Help!!!

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:43:33 -0800
Message-ID:
<qRuqh.185230$gl2.124143@newsfe16.lga>
BlackJackal wrote:

Alright I don't know what is going wrong here. When I complie the
class it works fine but when I try and compile a class that makes an
instance of the class I get the following error message

ShowStudent.java:9: 'void' type not allowed here
         System.out.println("Studend ID - " + newstudent.getid());
                            ^
ShowStudent.java:10: 'void' type not allowed here
         System.out.println("Credit Hours Earned - " +
newstudent.getch());
                            ^
ShowStudent.java:11: 'void' type not allowed here
         System.out.println("Points Earned - " + newstudent.getpe());
                            ^
ShowStudent.java:12: 'void' type not allowed here
         System.out.println("GPA - " + newstudent.getgpa());

Here is the class and instance.

    public class Student
   {
      private int id;
      private int ch;
      private int pe;
      private double gpa;
       public static void main(String[] args)
      {

      }
       public void setid(int a)
      {
         id = a;
      }
       public void setch(int a)
      {
         ch = a;
      }
       public void setpe(int a)
      {
         pe = a;
      }
       public void getid()
      {
         System.out.print(id);
      }
       public void getch()
      {
         System.out.print(ch);
      }
       public void getpe()
      {
         System.out.print(pe);
      }
       public void getgpa()
      {
         gpa = pe / ch;
         System.out.print(gpa);
      }
   }

    public class ShowStudent
   {
       public static void main(String[] args)
      {
         Student newstudent = new Student();
         newstudent.setid(1234);
         newstudent.setch(12);
         newstudent.setpe(48);
         System.out.println("Studend ID - " + newstudent.getid());
         System.out.println("Credit Hours Earned - " +
newstudent.getch());
         System.out.println("Points Earned - " + newstudent.getpe());
         System.out.println("GPA - " + newstudent.getgpa());
      }
   }


Because you are trying to concatenate a String to a void. Look at your
method getid(), it returns void.

What you wrote is effectively: System.out.println("string"+void).

As an aside, methods names should reflect what they do. get??? should
return something not be a print method. Your getID() should look like:

public String getID() {
     return studentID;
}

--

Knute Johnson
email s/nospam/knute/

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