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user2094257
user2094257

Reputation: 1715

Polymorphism issue with instantiating sub classes

I have an abstract base class Company and 2 sub classes fProfit and Nfprofit that derive from Company when I try to instantiate either of the sub classes I get the following error.

C:\Qt\Qt5.3.0\Tools\QtCreator\bin\test\nfprofit.cpp:19: error: prototype for 'QString Nfprofit::getName()' does not match any in class 'Nfprofit'
 QString Nfprofit::getName() {
         ^

C:\Qt\Qt5.3.0\Tools\QtCreator\bin\test\nfprofit.h:17: error: candidate is: virtual QString Nfprofit::getName() const
     QString getName() const;
             ^

My headers for Company and Nfprofit are below. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

code:

class Company {
public:
virtual QString getName() const = 0;
virtual QString getDateFormed() const = 0;
virtual QString toString() const = 0;
};

class Nfprofit : public Company
{
public:
    Nfprofit(QString name, QString date, bool charitable);

    //setters
    void setName(QString name);
    void setDateFormed(QString date);
    void setCharitableStatus(bool charitable);

    //getters
    QString getName() const;
    QString getDateFormed() const;
    QString getCharitableStatus() const;

    QString toString() const;
private:
    QString m_name, m_dateFormed;
    bool m_charitable;
};

Upvotes: 0

Views: 65

Answers (1)

juanchopanza
juanchopanza

Reputation: 227578

This is what the error message is telling you:

Your member is a declared as const:

QString getName() const;

But your definition isn't const:

QString Nfprofit::getName() { .... }

You need to make it const:

QString Nfprofit::getName() const { .... }
                            ^^^^^

Upvotes: 1

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