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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Formatting a Date

challenge 3 of 3

./Movie.java:29: error: illegal start of type return formattedDate; ^ ./Movie.java:29: error: ';' expected return formattedDate; ^ 2 errors

Movie.java
import java.util.Date;

public class Movie {

    private String mTitle;
    private Date mReleaseDate;

    public String getTitle() {
        return mTitle;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        mTitle = title;
    }

    public Date getReleaseDate() {
        return mReleaseDate;
    }

    public void setReleaseDate(Date date) {
        mReleaseDate = date;
    }
    public String getFormattedReleaseDate(){
    return "";  
    }
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

    String formattedDate = formatter.format(mReleaseDate);
    return formattedDate;

}

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Tendai;

Right now you have some code, including your return statement outside of the function. Move the closing curly bracket } that is below the return ""; line and put it below the return formattedDate; line.

Happy coding,

Ken

Brilliant its been the solution man, thanks alot.