Constructor inheritance(????) problem 1

[alwaysAnewbie]

I have constructor Player and constructor Owner in their respective classes. In constructor Owner I have a method (addRosterPlayer)i need to pass an instance of constructor Player. I have imported the entire package into both but class Owner will not compile. The error is "cannot resolve symbol" on method addRosterPlayer(Player p). Any idea what I'm missing here? (Yes I have RTFM'ed I'm just not getting it)

Class Player code

package  draft;

import draft.*;

public class Player {
        String f_name;
        String l_name;
        String pro_team;
        String position;
        int player_id;

        public Player(String fn, String ln, String team, String pos, int id) {
                l_name = ln;
                f_name = fn;
                pro_team = team;
                position = pos;
                player_id = id;
        }

        public void addDraftListPlayer(Player p) {

        }

}

Class Owner code

package  draft;

import draft.*;

public class Owner {
        String f_name;
        String l_name;
        int team_id;
        int league_id;
        String team_name;

        public Owner(String fn, String ln, int team, String tn, int league) {
                l_name = ln;
                f_name = fn;
                team_name = tn;
                team_id = team;
                league_id = league;
        }

        public String getTeamName() {
                return this.team_name;
        }

        public void addRosterPlayer(Player p) {

        }

}

Thanks for your help.

 

[sedj]

You don't need to import a package in a class that is in the same package as itself.

I expect your problem is you need to set your CLASSPATH correctly.

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[shwetagadgil]

I think problem is there in your envt setting, i executed ur code on machine without any issues

 

[alwaysAnewbie]

Thanks for the replies. Hopefullly this will relieve some of the soreness in my head (from banging it on the wall).

I only did the import when the problems first occured. I checked my classpath and the first entry is a period(current directory). That should handle the classpath issue. Any other thoughts on the environment side?

 

[sedj]

The only "environemnt" issue will be your CLASSPATH.

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[alwaysAnewbie]

Ok. To test my classpath I compiled a known working source file in a directory on a different disk. It compiled successfully. Doesn't that indicate that the classpath is ok?

 

[sedj]

Well it depends on the code you are compiling.

Imagine that you Owner.java and Player.java are in the following directory :

/home/test/java/draft

Then you would need to export your CLASSPATH to this directory :

/home/test/java/


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[alwaysAnewbie]

That was it. I had to explicitly set my classpath to get it to work. I now have a much greater understanding of what the classpath does. Thanks again for everyones help.