Running into trouble with the output of my code (listed below, separate files and all) where I can execute the correct action up until I need to execute one directly after another. It's spitting out the Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException error along with at which lines it is incorrect, however I don't know how to fix it as of now. (This is done in Eclipse compiler)
public class Assignment4
{
public static void main (String[] args)
{
// local variables, can be accessed anywhere from the main method
char input1 = 'Z';
//String inputInfo= "";
String name, firstName, lastName, city ;
int years = 0;
String line = new String();
// instantiate a Team object
Team suns = null;
printMenu();
//Create a Scanner object to read user input
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
do // will ask for user input
{
System.out.println("What action would you like to perform?");
line = scan.nextLine();
if (line.length() == 1)
{
input1 = line.charAt(0);
input1 = Character.toUpperCase(input1);
// matches one of the case statement
switch (input1)
{
case 'A': //Add a coach
System.out.print("Please enter the Coach's information:\n");
System.out.print("Enter coach's first name:\t");
firstName = scan.nextLine();
System.out.print("Enter coach's last name:\t");
lastName = scan.nextLine();
System.out.print("Enter coach's years of experience:\t");
years = scan.nextInt();
scan.nextLine();
Coach sunsCoach = new Coach(firstName, lastName, years);
System.out.print("\nPlease enter the Team's information:");
System.out.print("\nEnter teams name:\t");
name = scan.nextLine();
System.out.print("Enter Team's city:\t");
city = scan.nextLine();
suns = new Team(name, sunsCoach, city);
break;
case 'D': //Display course
System.out.print(suns.toString());
break;
case 'Q': //Quit
break;
case '?': //Display Menu
printMenu();
break;
default:
System.out.print("Unknown action\n");
break;
}
}
else
{
System.out.print("Unknown action\n");
}
} while (input1 != 'Q' || line.length() != 1);
scan.close();
}
/** The method printMenu displays the menu to a user **/
public static void printMenu()
{
System.out.print("Choice\t\tAction\n" +
"------\t\t------\n" +
"A\t\tAdd Coach\n" +
"D\t\tDisplay Team\n" +
"Q\t\tQuit\n" +
"?\t\tDisplay Help\n\n");
}
}
Along with this code, there are my two child class files, Coach.java and Team.java respectively, listed below.
public class Coach
{ String firstName, lastName; //constructor
int years;
{ String numYears;
firstName = lastName = numYears = "?";
}
public Coach(String first, String last, int years) { //Set variables
firstName = first;
lastName = last;
int numYears = years;
}
//Accessors
public String getFirstName()
{return firstName;}
public String getLastName()
{return lastName;}
public String getYears()
{String numYears = null;
return numYears;}
// Mutators
public void setFirstName(String theFirstName)
{firstName = theFirstName;}
public void setLastName(String theLastName)
{lastName = theLastName;}
public void setYears(int years)
{int numYears = years;}
public String toString() {
String output = "\nLast Name:\t" + lastName + "\nFirst Name:\t " + firstName;
output += "\nYears of Experience:\t " + getYears() + "\n";
return output;
}
}
public class Team {
String teamName;
Coach coach;
String getCity;
//Constructor
public Team() {
teamName = getCity = "?";
}
public Team(String name, Coach coach, String cityName)
{ teamName = name;
}
//Accessors
public String getName() {return teamName;}
public Coach getCoach() {return coach;}
public String getCity() {return getCity;}
//Mutators
public void setName(String theName) {teamName = theName;}
public void setCity(String someCity) {getCity = someCity;}
public void setCoach(String firstName, String lastName, int years)
{ coach = new Coach (firstName, lastName, years);
}
public String toString()
{ String output = "Team's name:\t" + teamName + " at " + getCity() + "\nCoach Information:";
output += coach.toString();
return output;
}
}
Running the code, and putting in inputs until I wish to select option D, will eventually yield this specific error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "Coach.toString()" because "this.coach" is null at Team.toString(Team.java:30) at Assignment4.main(Assignment4.java:68)
