The method setName(String) is undefined for the type Person

[Astralogic]

Hi I've run into a problem that shouldn't be happening. I'm on the third video tutorial from the eclipse website.

I have created a simple class called Person:

package org.totalbeginner.tutorial;

public class Person {
	// fields
	private String name;	// name of person
	private int maximumBooks;	// the most books a person can check out
	
	// constructor
	public Person()	{
		name = "unknown name";
		maximumBooks = 3;
	}
	
	// methods
	public String getName()	{
		return name;
	}
	
	public void setName(String anyName) {
		name = anyName;
	}

	public int getMaximumBooks() {
		return maximumBooks;
	}

	public void setMaximumBooks(int maximumBooks) {
		this.maximumBooks = maximumBooks;
	}
}

Take note of the setName method, that's where the problem is. I open the scrapbook to learn a bit about that next. I clicked the Import Declarations button and added the org.totalbeginner.tutorial package. I followed the tutorial exactly, that method IS defined in the Person class.

Into the scrapbook I type:

Person p = new Person();
p.setName("Fred");
p

Which leads to the message:

The method setName(String) is undefined for the type Person

Why is Eclipse doing this to me?

[wsaryada]

What is this scrapbook? Is it an environment for testing some code? Maybe the Person object know by this scrapbook is different to what you have in your Eclipse. Have you tried to recompile it so both of them refer to the same Person class? Because the code looked just fine.

[Astralogic]

I have some more information. For some reason Eclipse seems to think that the Person class is not a part of my current project. I tried to create a new Junit Test Case thingy and calling it PersonTest to test the Person class. However it complained that the Person class wasn't a part of this current project.

A look at my screen may help:

[Astralogic]

What is this scrapbook? Is it an environment for testing some code? Maybe the Person object know by this scrapbook is different to what you have in your Eclipse. Have you tried to recompile it so both of them refer to the same Person class? Because the code looked just fine.

I've tried to make it point to the same Person class, it should be pointing to it anyway as one step I took was to make sure that doesn't happen (I clicked the Import Declarations button and added the org.totalbeginner.tutorial package.). I tried using "org.totalbeginner.tutorials.Person" but I get the exact same message.

And yes the Scrapbook is for testing code snippets.

[Tolls]

That Person class in that screenshot hasn't been saved (it has an '*' next to it), so it hasn't been compiled.
Not that that is necessarily your problem, but you never know.

[Astralogic]

Thanks Tolls, that solved the problem with the scrapbook. Gotta remember things need saving.

My problem with the Test Case I solved too, take a look at the screenshot I misspelled the highlighted package name to the left :/

Thanks

[DarrylBurke]

This thread is more suited to the Eclipse forum than New to Java. Moving.

db

[Astralogic]

This thread is more suited to the Eclipse forum than New to Java. Moving.

db

Sorry about that Darryl, I didn't realize there was an Eclipse forum.