Having a problem calling a method from another class

[nikki77]

Hi!

I am taking a java class and it is teaching me how to write the code where I am calling a method from another class. It is giving me an error

below is the code and the error - Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!!

public class TestStatement
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("Calling method from another class:");
SetUpSite.statementOfPhilsophy();
}
}
C:\Documents and Settings\Nicole\My Documents\TestStatement.java:6: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method statementOfPhilsophy ()
location: class SetUpSite
SetUpSite.statementOfPhilsophy();
^
1 error

[MudGuard]

Is the method in the other class declared static and public?

[talleyrand]

In an effort to redeem myself for my flubbed document selector answer, I'd say what you should be checking for is that you have the method call capitalized or identified correctly.
Doing some quick testing, if the method wasn't static, it'd give an error about ``non-static method statementOfPhilsophy() cannot be referenced from a static context.'' A permission issue would usually be identified as such (statementOfPhilsophy() has private access in SetUpSite). If it's misspelled or incorrectly capitalized, it'd be ``cannot resolve symbol.''

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public class TestStatement
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      System.out.println("Calling method from another class:");
      SetUpSite.statementOfPhilsophy();
   }
}

and

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class SetUpSite
{
   static void statementOfPhilsophy()
   {
      System.out.println("foo");
   }
}

[nikki77]

the method in the other class is declared public and I have checked the case in the original code and made sure when I am trying to call to that method I am typing it exactly as it appears in the main class.

Thanks for your help. I wasn't sure if maybe I had to use a different syntax in Textpad or not

[talleyrand]

Why don't you give this a whirl? What it'll do is create an instance of the class SetUpSite and then it'll look and see what methods that class says it has. Let us know what it says. If not, if you can just go ahead and post the SetUpSite code (if it's not too terribly long).

Heck if nothing else, it's good for me to look at compiled languages from time to time even if I think Python and SQL are so delicious.

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import java.lang.reflect.Method;

public class TestStatement
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		System.out.println("Calling method from another class:");
		//SetUpSite.statementOfPhilsophy();

		String className = "SetUpSite";
		try
		{
			Class c = Class.forName(className);

			Method [] m = c.getDeclaredMethods();
			for (int i = 0; i < m.length; i += 1)
				System.out.println(m[i]);
		}
		catch (ClassNotFoundException ex)
		{
			System.out.println("Class not found " + className);
		}

	}
}

[tat]

make sure that your method is declared as static. Than you don't need to create an instance of this class to call a method