Having problems with static booleans

[Medieve]

I've been going through all the forums I can find, all the books I can get my hands on, all the people that I know personally, and I can't get this working.

Here's what I'm supposed to do.

•public static Person parsePerson(String parseString, String delim)
• This method must parse the given parseString according to the given delim, and return a
new Person object. The method will utilize the modifiers in the Person class to set the features
of the Person object.

So, I have everything set up, but I can't get this to compile no matter how I rearrange everything. I've gone over the bicycle example over and over again on the java help page, keep pouring through my book, but nothing helps. For a while, I was able to get this to work a little, until I hit the booleans, and now I'm back farther than I started. Any help as to what I'm doing wrong and what a right way looks like would be greatly appreciated.

import java.io.*;
import java.lang.Object;

public class Person{

private String name;
private String gender;
private String eyeColor;
private String hairColor;
private boolean hasGlasses;
private boolean hasBeard;
private boolean hasMustache;

//accessors
public String getName(){return this.name;}
public String getGender(){return this.gender;}
public String getEyeColor(){return this.eyeColor;}
public String getHairColor(){return this.hairColor;}
public boolean getHasGlasses(){return this.hasGlasses;}
public boolean getHasBeard(){return this.hasBeard;}
public boolean getHasMustache(){return this.hasMustache;}

//modifiers

public void setName(){this.name=name;}
public void setGender(){this.gender=gender;}
public void setEyeColor(){this.eyeColor=eyeColor;}
public void setHairColor(){this.hairColor=hairColor;}
public void setHasGlasses(){this.hasGlasses=hasGlasses;}
public void setHasBeard(){this.hasBeard=hasBeard;}
public void setHasMustache(){this.hasMustache=hasMustache;}

//parse the list of people
public static Person parsePerson(String parseString, String delim){

String[] tokens=parseString.split(delim);

Person.name=tokens[0];
Person.gender=tokens[1];
Person.eyeColor=tokens[2];
Person.hairColor=tokens[3];
Person.hasGlasses=tokens[4];
Person.hasBeard=tokens[5];
Person.hasMustache=tokens[6];



return parsePerson;
}

[Zack]

It probably won't compile because you're missing a } on the very last line.

It may also not compile as your setters (setName, setGender, etc.) accept no parameters. For example, public void setName(){this.name=name;} should be public void setName(String name){this.name=name;}.

Additionally, tokens[4] through tokens[6] are Strings, however you are attempting to set them to boolean values.

If none of this fixes it, please post the updated code (entire class/file, and in [code] tags please!) and the exact errors + line numbers you get due to compile problems.

[Medieve]

Gave that a shot, tried rearranging a few things, same errors are coming up.

import java.io.*;
import java.lang.Object;

public class Person{

private String name;
private String gender;
private String eyeColor;
private String hairColor;
private boolean hasGlasses;
private boolean hasBeard;
private boolean hasMustache;

public String getName(){return this.name;}
public String getGender(){return this.gender;}
public String getEyeColor(){return this.eyeColor;}
public String getHairColor(){return this.hairColor;}
public boolean getHasGlasses(){return this.hasGlasses;}
public boolean getHasBeard(){return this.hasBeard;}
public boolean getHasMustache(){return this.hasMustache;}

public void setName(String name){this.name=name;}
public void setGender(String gender){this.gender=gender;}
public void setEyeColor(String eyeColor){this.eyeColor=eyeColor;}
public void setHairColor(String hairColor){this.hairColor=hairColor;}
public void setHasGlasses(boolean hasGlasses){this.hasGlasses=hasGlasses;}
public void setHasBeard(boolean hasBeard){this.hasBeard=hasBeard;}
public void setHasMustache(boolean hasMustache){this.hasMustache=hasMustache;}

  
public static Person parsePerson(String parseString, String delim){
  
  String[] tokens=parseString.split(delim);
  
  Person.name=tokens[0];
  Person.gender=tokens[1];
  Person.eyeColor=tokens[2];
  Person.hairColor=tokens[3];
  Person.hasGlasses=tokens[4];
  Person.hasBeard=tokens[5];
  Person.hasMustache=tokens[6];
  
  

  return parsePerson;
}
}

Errors are below, and I'm at a complete loss. Everything I can find online and in my book says this SHOULD work.

11 errors found:
File: C:\...\bookClasses\Person.java  [line: 35]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:35: non-static variable name cannot be referenced from a static context
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 36]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:36: non-static variable gender cannot be referenced from a static context
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 37]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:37: non-static variable eyeColor cannot be referenced from a static context
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 38]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:38: non-static variable hairColor cannot be referenced from a static context
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 39]
Error: C:\...\bookClasses\Person.java:39: non-static variable hasGlasses cannot be referenced from a static context
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 39]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:39: incompatible types
found   : java.lang.String
required: boolean
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 40]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:40: non-static variable hasBeard cannot be referenced from a static context
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 40]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:40: incompatible types
found   : java.lang.String
required: boolean
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 41]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:41: non-static variable hasMustache cannot be referenced from a static context
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 41]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:41: incompatible types
found   : java.lang.String
required: boolean
File: C:\...\Person.java  [line: 45]
Error: C:\...\Person.java:45: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable parsePerson
location: class Person

[Zack]

Ah, alright.

You have three issues:
1) You are trying to access Person.variable rather than creating a new Person object, as such:

Person someVarName = new Person();
someVarName.name = tokens[0];
// etc

You can read more on that: Creating Objects (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Classes and Objects)

2) Like I said above, tokens[4], tokens[5], and tokens[6] are Strings, but you want those to be booleans. Instead, you will want to check if the value of tokens[4] is "0", and if it is, then use false. Otherwise, true.

3) You're returning a function, rather than an object. Once you've created your object (as in step 1), you have to return THAT object.

[off99555]

Use Boolean.parseBoolean(String text); to parse String (true or false) into boolean data type catch Exception if cannot parse. So I have made a new method for you.

public static Person parsePerson(String parseString, String delim){

String[] tokens=parseString.split(delim);
Person p = new Person();
p.name=tokens[0];
p.gender=tokens[1];
p.eyeColor=tokens[2];
p.hairColor=tokens[3];
p.hasGlasses=Boolean.parseBoolean(tokens[4]);
p.hasBeard=Boolean.parseBoolean(tokens[5]);
p.hasMustache=Boolean.parseBoolean(tokens[6]);

return p;
}