Cannot find symbol class

[mustachio]

I wrote a new class called Pet and I'm trying to get it connected to a pre-written class called Assignment4 for, well, an assignment. However, I can't link the two together. They're saved in the same folder on my computer, so I don't understand the problem. I get the error "cannot find symbol constructor Pet()". Here is the complete code. Thanks in advance for any help.

First Program

public class Pet
{
	private static String petName;
	private static String type;
	private static BirthInfo birth;

	public Pet(String petName, String type)
	{
		petName = "?";
		type = "?";
	}

	public String getPetName()
	{
		return petName;
	}

	public String getType()
	{
		return type;
	}

	public BirthInfo getBirthInfo()
	{
		return birth;
	}

	public void setPetName (String pName)
	{
		petName = pName;
	}

	public void setType (String pType)
	{
		type = pType;
	}

	public void setBirthInfo(int date, int month, int year, String place)
	{
		birth.setDate(date);
		birth.setMonth(month);
		birth.setYear(year);
		birth.setPlace(place);
	}

	public String toString()
	{
		return "\nPet Name:\t\t" + petName + "\nType:\t\t\t" + type +
			   "\nBirth Information:\t" + birth + "\n\n";
	}
}

Second program

import java.io.*;    //to use InputStreamReader and BufferedReader
import java.util.*;

public class Assignment4
 {
  public static void main (String[] args)
   {
       // local variables, can be accessed anywhere from the main method
       char input1 = 'Z';
       String inputInfo;
       String name, type, place;
       int date, month, year;
       String line = new String();

       // instantiate a Pet object
       Pet pet1 = new Pet();

       printMenu();

       //Create a Scanner object to read user input
       Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);


       do  // will ask for user input
        {
         System.out.println("What action would you like to perform?");
         line = scan.nextLine();

         if (line.length() == 1)
          {
           input1 = line.charAt(0);
           input1 = Character.toUpperCase(input1);

           // matches one of the case statement
           switch (input1)
            {
             case 'A':   //Add Pet
               System.out.print("Please enter the pet information:\n");
               System.out.print("Enter a pet name:\n");
               name = scan.nextLine();
               pet1.setPetName(name);

               System.out.print("Enter its type:\n");
               type = scan.nextLine();
               pet1.setType(type);

               System.out.print("Enter its birth date:\n");
               date = Integer.parseInt(scan.nextLine());
               System.out.print("Enter its birth month:\n");
               month = Integer.parseInt(scan.nextLine());
               System.out.print("Enter its birth year:\n");
               year = Integer.parseInt(scan.nextLine());
               System.out.print("Enter its birth place:\n");
               place = scan.nextLine();
               pet1.setBirthInfo(date, month, year, place);

               break;
             case 'D':   //Display Pet
               System.out.print(pet1);
               break;
             case 'Q':   //Quit
               break;
             case '?':   //Display Menu
               printMenu();
               break;
             default:
               System.out.print("Unknown action\n");
               break;
            }
          }
         else
          {
           System.out.print("Unknown action\n");
          }
        } while (input1 != 'Q' || line.length() != 1);
   }

  /** The method printMenu displays the menu to a user **/
  public static void printMenu()
   {
     System.out.print("Choice\t\tAction\n" +
                        "------\t\t------\n" +
                        "A\t\tAdd Pet\n" +
                        "D\t\tDisplay Pet\n" +
                        "Q\t\tQuit\n" +
                        "?\t\tDisplay Help\n\n");
  }
}

PS the BirthInfo references are for another class that I wrote, but there don't seem to be any problems linking it with the other programs.

[Junky]

Read teh error message very carefully. How many parameters does your Pet constructor expect? How many parameters are you passing it?

[pbrockway2]

"cannot find symbol constructor Pet()"

That is saying that you don't have a Pet constructor that takes no arguments. As written the constructor you do have requires name and type arguments. (although I don't know why. what is that constructor supposed to do exactly?)

[mustachio]

Ah yes, not sure why I added those arguments in there. I took them out and everything seems to be working fine. Thank you!

[Junky]

In future please try to read and comprehend what the error message says. This one was relatively easy to understand.

[pbrockway2]

Another thing you might want to think about: what is petName in the Pet class supposed to represent? Something static (ie common to pets as a whole)?