I am working on a project in BlueJ which I have to add an "Event Post" to a simple social network project. I have created the project but I am unsure how to take a string, such as "message", from a subclass of the Class Post and print it the post is a message post. If it is an event post, I need to print a string for the description of the event and then a string of the time. Here is the code that prints out the information about a post in the Post class:
/**
* Display the details of this post.
*
* (Currently: Print to the text terminal. This is simulating display
* in a web browser for now.)
*/
public void display()
{
System.out.println(username);
System.out.print(timeString(timestamp));
if(likes > 0) {
System.out.println(" - " + likes + " people like this.");
}
else {
System.out.println();
}
if(comments.isEmpty()) {
System.out.println(" No comments.");
}
else {
System.out.println(" " + comments.size() + " comment(s). Click here to view.");
}
}
This is the code from the MessagePost class:
public class MessagePost extends Post
{
private String message; // an arbitrarily long, multi-line message
/**
* Constructor for objects of class MessagePost.
*
* @param author The username of the author of this post.
* @param text The text of this post.
*/
public MessagePost(String author, String text)
{
super(author);
message = text;
}
/**
* Return the text of this post.
*
* @return The post's message text.
*/
public String getText()
{
return message;
}
}
