Add objects to ArrayList with Polymorphism

[africanhacker]

I have a super class Prod. Two classes, class Art and class Bart extend Prod.

public class Art extends Prod {

}

public class Bart extends Prod {

}

Now I want to make objects of class Art and class Bart and put them into an ArrayList

This is what I have tried to do but the compiler is screaming:

ArrayList<Prod> x = new ArrayList<Prod>();


//create object of type Art or Bar

Prod sugar = new Art();


//add to ArrayList

x.add(sugar); //this goes all red and fails

What am I doing wrong? Any help will be appreciated.

[Junky]

This is what I have tried to do but the compiler is screaming:

That screaming contains useful information which you neglected to include. When you get error messages you should post the full and exact message.

[pbrockway2]

Could this be a butterflies and lions problem? What is the compiler message?

[Junky]

Looks like we have to guess.

I guess that OP is wearing the wrong colour socks!

[africanhacker]

Hi guys, thank you for your responses. I am using Netbeans because I need to do a GUI so the errors are not as good as I usually get in eclipse or perhaps it is just a matter of me not being to use the Netbeans IDE properly.

Below are some screen shots of what is going on. The first is of the actual error, the second is of where I declared the ArrayList just in case I made a mistake.






So the error that is highlighted in the first is all I know. Please do cleanse the world of idiots, starting with me.

[JosAH]

No statements are allowed outside a method body or outside an initializer body.

kind regards,

Jos

[africanhacker]

No statements are allowed outside a method body or outside an initializer body.

kind regards,

Jos

Surely I am an idiot cleansed. Thank. Let me just make sure this solves my problem but I am sure it will

[Tolls]

Even if that bit of code was in a valid code block it would still give the same error...because it's productArray, not productsArray.