String to an object?

Hello, I am very new to Java so please forgive me!
I am doing some tutorials on associating classes. I have 2 classes; 1 called User, the other called Email. A 'user' has an 'email' address.

I need to do a setEmail method in the User class, but I am having a problem. Here is a bit of my code...

My User class...

public abstract class User {
private Email email;
private String name;
private String userId;

public User() {
name = "";
userId = "";
email = null;
}

public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}




My Email class:

public class Email {

private String email;

public Email() {
email = "";
}

public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}

public String getEmail() {
return email;
}






In setEmail (in the User class) I want to use the string parameter to create a new 'Email' object and place it in the email variable. How can I do this?

I am getting an incompatible types error... because the Email is an object and the email variable is a string?

Please any help is much appreciated,
thankyou! :o

You have to make a new Email object and set it's (String) email member; something like this:

Code:

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public void setEmail(String email) {
  Email e= new Email(); // create a new Email object;
  e.setEmail(email); // set its email address
  this.email= e; // set the Email object in this class
}

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imho you should also create another c'tor in your Email class, one that takes a String argument.

kind regards,

Jos

Hello,

JosAH is Right...

You might could also decide to Change the parameter the setEmail() takes to Email, That's why it's giving you an incompatible type.

All the best!!!

Thankyou very much for your quick replies!!

I am just starting with Java and you've helped me alot,

thankyou again! :D :D