Convert long to Object? 1

[lbrechler]

I have some code that gets the current date/time using in a line that looks like this:

long time_of_msg = System.currentTimeMillis()/1000;

Now I would like to call the function
void setAttribute(String name, Object value)

and pass it the value of time_of_msg.

The compile is giving me the error "setAttribute(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object) in ... cannot be applied to (java.lang.String, long).

I have tried casting, "toString()", and everything else I can think to do, but it continues to throw errors.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
~Lindsay

 

[godcomplex]

try:

setAttribute( string, new Long( long ) );

The error is saying that you must pass that method an Object not a primative. You must use the wrapper class Long to use that method.

-gc

 

[lbrechler]

that was it! thanks.