String to an object?

[bobbyboyy]

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

[JosAH]

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

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
}

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

kind regards,

Jos

[MuslimCoder]

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!!!

[bobbyboyy]

Thankyou very much for your quick replies!!

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

thankyou again! :D :D