Question

I am currently in the process of developing a character generation mechanism for a Java based text game but I’ve ran into a issue and cannot see where I may have gone wrong. I have a “Character” class, which is abstract and then another class, “NPCharacter” which is meant build on top of this.

public abstract class Character {
    public abstract void generateStats();
}

public class NPCharacter extends Character {
    public void generateStats() {

    }
} 

Eclipse says that “The type NPCharacter cannot subclass the final class Character”. Can anyone see the error here?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The compiler is confusing your Character with java.lang.Character. Just use a package and make sure you import your Character.

package com.foo;

public abstract class Character {
    public abstract void generateStats();
}

and

import com.foo.Character;

public class NPCharacter extends Character {
    public void generateStats() {

    }
}