Generic Shape Comparing

[rapid hamlet]

So I am just having issues for some reason with when and how to properly create my shapes with Generics to utilize a comparing method. I already got a good grasp on the idea with creating the shapes and the "compareTo" generic file. But when I look into other ways to implement it through other sources, all the sources I could find weren't really helpful, just talking about how to manually call them and to create the objects, which is not what I want to do. I want to be able to get input from a user, unable to know what the shapes are and then compare according to what the two shapes are.

[jovial junco]

<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

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[rapid hamlet]

This is the code currently I'm using for the call, but it just doesn't work because the program wont know after the if else statements, which shape to do.

if (shape1.equals("Circle")){
   Circle circle1 = new Circle(convertRadius1);
} else if (shape1.equals("Rectangle")){
   Rectangle rectangle1 = new Rectangle(convertWidth1, convertHeight1);
 }
if (shape2.equals("Circle")){
   Circle circle2 = new Circle(convertRadius2);
} else if (shape2.equals("Rectangle")){
   Rectangle rectangle1 = new Rectangle(convertWidth2, convertHeight2);
}

[jovial junco]

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Formatted code

if (shape1.equals("Circle")) {
  Circle circle1 = new Circle(convertRadius1);
}
else if (shape1.equals("Rectangle")) {
  Rectangle rectangle1 = new Rectangle(convertWidth1, convertHeight1);
}
if (shape2.equals("Circle")) {
  Circle circle2 = new Circle(convertRadius2);
}
else if (shape2.equals("Rectangle")) {
  Rectangle rectangle1 = new Rectangle(convertWidth2, convertHeight2);
}

[keen bluff]

I don't understand how this is related to the question, you are just creating shapes by name