Trying to add accessor methods for additional string values

[sudden dagger]

Hi there, I'm trying to create accessor methods like shown in the instruction text, (creating day/month/year variables) but I'm stuck when it comes to creating a string representation. I thought of doing an if then statement but that didn't seem to work, either that or i placed it in the wrong area. Could somebody help?

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[dull dagger]

You're supposed to return a String, not an int

[sudden dagger]

forgot about that ^^ changed that

im not sure what to do next though, like I'll get the string representations

[dull dagger]

Your questions are hard to follow... Do you struggle with English?

[sudden dagger]

sorry

I'm having a hard time figuring out how I can do what is lined in the instruction picture, I added the accessor methods but the variables for the string representations still need to be declared right?

[dull dagger]

Well... It's up to you. If you ask me, the String versions shouldn't be called accessors, instead what they return should be constructed on each call

But you can define the variables and their values in the constructor instead

[sudden dagger]

could i do like

for the day

returning the day + suffix

and then make an if-then method to determine which day number will be assigned which suffix

and then do the same thing for assigning a string name to a month integer

[dull dagger]

"return, and then"?

could you, like, try to make a huge effort into checking that you're communicating your ideas clearly?

[sudden dagger]

no

thats not what i mean

im saying

return day + suffix

for example

and somewhere earlier in the code ill make an if-then method to determine which day's integer value will be assigned to a certain suffix

[dull dagger]

erm

[sudden dagger]

if-else then

[dull dagger]

Can you, can you re-read that last sentence and check that's what you meant?

[sudden dagger]

do you know what im trying to say

[dull dagger]

I think so, my problem is being sure of it

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im not sure if thats something i could do and i was wondering if that was something that'd be a possibility for me to do in order to have "suffix" defined in the return statement later on

[dull dagger]

I mean, something like that is indeed possible and normally simple

Like

if(day < 10) {
  suffix = "beginning";
} else if(day < 20) {
  suffix = "middle";
} // and so on

[sudden dagger]

yes

[sudden dagger]

here's what i have so far, question; do I have to change what I did? I need to add a toString method now and I don't know if I did anything wrong where a toString method may need to be, or would I create a completely new method?

I haven't used toString before so tbh I don't really know much about it

[dull dagger]

So, you'd add a method that looks like that:

@Override
public String toString() {
  return "day " + day + ", month " + month + ", year " + year;
}

[sudden dagger]

@Override, what would that be?

anyways, i must've done something wrong? maybe? I keep getting null here whenever I want to grab "monthWord" and "suffix"

[dull dagger]

It's just something you should do when you override an existing method

[sudden dagger]

gotcha

[dull dagger]

Probably the constructor doesn't initialize these variables

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that would be here, right?

could I just add like

this.monthWord = monthWord and the same thing with suffix, even though they aren't variables you input?

[dull dagger]

I mean, as they're not something you input, you're going to have to compute them instead

[sudden dagger]

alright

that may not be it, i may have done something wrong

[dull dagger]

I don't see any computing

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sorry?

[dull dagger]

I hinted that you need to compute the values of these variables. You don't seem to have done that

[sudden dagger]

my bad

computing the values

i think i got it to work

and then just doing this returned what i wanted

this passage asking me to add a second method, I tried using toString again because it wants day/month/year to be string format it seems, but that doesn't work? can I only use toString once or something?

[dull dagger]

toString() and anything, you can have only one version per class. So you'll need to give it another name

[sudden dagger]

i did it thank you

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[dull dagger]

Well. At least you didn't need much

[sudden dagger]

ill put this here as what i need to do next incase i have questions