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kirky
kirky

Reputation: 80

Java: cannot find symbol (constructor)

newbie doing Java homework here. I have one class named Album which contains the following constructors:

public class Album {

    private String title;
    private String artist;
    private String genre;
    private Song favoriteTrack;
    private int trackNumber;
    private static int numAlbums;

    //Constructors
    public Album(String title, Song favoriteTrack, int trackNumber) {
        this.title = title;
        this.favoriteTrack = favoriteTrack;
        this.trackNumber = trackNumber;
        artist = favoriteTrack.getArtist();
        genre = favoriteTrack.getGenre();
        numAlbums++;
    }

    public Album(String title, Song favoriteTrack) {
        this(title, favoriteTrack, 1);
    }
...}

And then I have a second class MusicCollection which instantiates the Album class thrice, within its main method...

public static void main (String[] args) {...

    Album album1 = new Album("Debut", "Venus as a Boy", 3);
    Album album2 = new Album("Homework", "Around the World", 7);
    Album album3 = new Album("Ghost in the Machine", "Invisible Sun", 3);
    ...}

However, when I attempt to compile MusicCollection.java, I get the error: 

cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor Album(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,int)
location : class Album

for each time I try to call the constructor. The classes Album and MusicCollection ARE in the same directory, and Album.java compiles. I imagine I'm doing something silly, but I can't figure this out. Any help would be much appreciated!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6374

Answers (4)

dann.dev
dann.dev

Reputation: 2494

What Binyamin said! If you have a song class you need to say something like new Album("Debut", new Song("venus as a boy"), 3); depending on how your Song class works, if not, change song to a string type

Upvotes: 1

SpaceFace
SpaceFace

Reputation: 1552

You are trying to instantiate Album with 2 strings rather than a string and some class Song, maybe you should change the constructor to

public Album(String title, String favoriteTrack, int trackNumber) {
    this.title = title;
    this.favoriteTrack = favoriteTrack;
    this.trackNumber = trackNumber;
    artist = favoriteTrack.getArtist();
    genre = favoriteTrack.getGenre();
    numAlbums++;
}

or do this:

new Album("Debut", new Song("Venus as a boy"), 3);

or however Song is created.

Upvotes: 0

João Silva
João Silva

Reputation: 91299

You are passing a String to the second argument of the Album constructor, when you have declared that it should receive an instance of Song.

Upvotes: 1

MByD
MByD

Reputation: 137312

The second argument of the constructor you defined is Song, not String, but in your main, you try to instantiate it with a String as a second argument.

Upvotes: 6

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