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Java Java Objects Harnessing the Power of Objects Throwing Exceptions

Posted by Yousif Sayer
Yousif Sayer
7,073 Points

Need help in Exception challenge I don't know where is the error

In this challenge is asking to throw an exception. I tried with try catch blocks but it seems there is an error in the way I did.

Can anyone help.

GoKart.java 
class GoKart {
  public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;
  private String color;
  private int barCount;
  private int lapsDriven;

  public GoKart(String color) {
    this.color = color;
  }

  public String getColor() {
    return color;
  }
  public void charge() {
    barCount = MAX_BARS;
  }

  public boolean isBatteryEmpty() {
    return barCount == 0;
  }

  public boolean isFullyCharged() {
    return MAX_BARS == barCount;
  }

  public void drive() {
    drive(1);
  }

  public void drive(int laps) {
    try{
      lapsDriven += laps;
      barCount -= laps;
    }catch(IllegalArgumentException e){
      System.out.print("There is no enogh bars!");
    }
  }
}

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

Try/Catch block are used to catch exceptions from code that throws them, it is not used to actually throw exceptions.

Throwing an exception is done with code along these lines:

throw new IllegalArgumentException();

But in addition to throwing the exception you have to yourself implement a test to see if the exception should be thrown. Basically you need to write an if statement that checks if there is enough battery to complete the lap.

I recommend you try to solve the challenge again now that you have a better idea about what you have to do, but if you still can't solve it then I have posted the solution for you here.

Edit: Changed the linked solution a bit to address a logic issue.

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Your code right now doesn't throw an error if someone tries to drive more laps then they have bars left. We'll end up with a negative number of bars, which is a logic problem, but it doesn't throw an error. You need to force it to throw an error if it meets the condition:

  public void drive(int laps) {
    if (laps >= barCount) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("There is not enough bars!");  
    } else {
      lapsDriven += laps;
      barCount -= laps;
    }
  }
andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

There is a slight logic error in your code, the condition should be "laps > barCount". With your condition it would throw an error if 1 lap was requested while there was 1 bar of battery, which should work.