I have a compilation problem in Processing with syntax which works fine in java. I cant't understand where comes the problem from.

I have a class Phiosopher with a constructor in separate file:

class Philosopher
{

public String name;

public int yearsFrom;

public int yearsTo;

public ArrayList other;


Philosopher() //default constructor

{


name = "";


yearsFrom = 0;


yearsTo = 0;


other = new ArrayList();

}
       public void setName(String name)
       {
         this.name = name;
       }
       public String getName()
       {
         return this.name;  
       }
}

then i have a method which parses a file and returns ArrayList of Philosopher(s).
(Thing that bothers me also is that i get compilation error if using <Philosopher> generic). anyways the codde snippet:

void setup()
{
   ArrayList p = new ArrayList();  
   p = readFile("philosophers.txt");  //this fills ArrayList with Philosophers

   print(p.get(0).name); //this produces  an compilation error! :
Semantic Error: No accessible field named "name" was found in type "java.lang.Object".



}

it does also produce an error if i handle object Philosopher via getters and setters:

   ArrayList p = new ArrayList();    
   p = readFile("phil.txt");
   print(p.get(0).getName());

...will produce: Semantic Error: No accessible method with signature "getName()" was found in type "java.lang.Object".


or:

   ArrayList p = new ArrayList();    
   p = readFile("phil.txt");

   Philosopher phil = new Philosopher();
   phil = p.get(0);

   print(phil.getName());

will produce: Semantic Error: The type of the right sub-expression, "java.lang.Object", is not assignable to the variable, of type "Temporary_3414_9666$Philosopher".

I'm sure, that ArrayList is filled properly, since

print(p.get(0));

will return Temporary_5388_3296$Philosopher@74c3aa


Any suggestions?

Thanks. I found that out after i made a post. But it's strange since in eclipse thing works fine with java 6 SE. Is Processing's compiler that bad?

mogwai wrote on Nov 25^th, 2007, 2:21am:

http://processing.org/faq.html#java
http://processing.org/reference/environment/index.html#Tabs