method does not override or implement a method from a supertype

Question

I am creating a mock employee database using inheritance and polymorphism. I am running into the following errors when trying to override the superclass methods.

HourlyEmployee is not abstract and does not override abstract method resetWeek() in Employee
public class HourlyEmployee extends Employee
   ^
HourlyEmployee.java:43: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype
@Override
^
HourlyEmployee.java:54: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype
@Override
^
HourlyEmployee.java:60: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype
@Override
^
HourlyEmployee.java:66: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype
@Override

Here is my Employee Superclass and HourlyEmployee Subclass code

public abstract class Employee
{
protected String firstName;
protected String lastName;
protected char middleInitial;
protected boolean fulltime;
private char gender;
private int employeeNum;

public Employee (String fn, String ln, char m, char g, int empNum, boolean ft)
{
    firstName = fn;
    lastName = ln;
    middleInitial = m;
    gender = g;
    employeeNum = empNum;
    fulltime = ft;
}

public int getEmployeeNumber()
{
    return employeeNum;
}

public void setEmployeeNumber(int empNum)
{
    while (empNum <= 10000 && empNum >= 99999)
    {
        System.out.print ("Invalid input, please try again: ");
    }

    if (empNum >= 10000 && empNum <= 99999)
    {
        employeeNum = empNum;
    }
}

public String getFirstName()
{
    return firstName;
}

public String getLastName()
{
    return lastName;
}

public char checkGender(char g)
{
    if (g != 'M' || g != 'F')
    {
        g = 'F';
    }
    return g;
}

public char getGender()
{
    return gender;
}


@Override
public boolean equals(Object e2)
{
    if (this.employeeNum == ((Employee)e2).employeeNum)
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

@Override
public String toString()
{
    return employeeNum + "\n" + lastName + ", " + firstName + "\n" + "Gender:" + gender + "\n" + "Status:" + fulltime + "\n";
}

public abstract double caclulateWeeklyPay();

public abstract void annualRaise();

public abstract double holidayBonus();

public abstract void resetWeek();
}

Here is the HourlyEmployee subclass

public class HourlyEmployee extends Employee
{
private double wage;
private double hoursWorked;
private double additionalHours;

public HourlyEmployee(String fn, String ln, char m, char g, int empNum, boolean ft, double w, double h, double ahours)
{
    super (fn, ln, m, g, empNum, ft);
    wage = w;
    hoursWorked = h;
    hoursWorked = 0.0;
    additionalHours = ahours;
}

@Override
public String toString()
{
    return this.getEmployeeNumber() + "\n" + lastName + ", " + firstName + middleInitial + "\n" + "Gender: "
     + this.getGender() + "\n" + "Status: " + fulltime + "\n" + "Wage: " + wage + "\n" + "Hours Worked: " + hoursWorked + "\n";
}

   //@Override    
public double calculateWeeklyPay(double w, double h)
{
    if (h > 40)
    {
        w = w * 2;
    }

    return w * h;        
}

//@Override
public double annualRaise(double w)
{
    return (w * .05) + w;
}

//@Override
public double holidayBonus(double w)
{
    return w * 40;
}

//@Override
public double resetWeek(double h)
{
    h = 0.0;
    return h;
}

public double plusHoursWorked(double h, double ahours)
{
    while (h <= 0)
    {
        System.out.println("Invalid value entered, please try again");
    }

    h += ahours;

    return h;
}


}

Solution 1

Your Employee class has 4 abstract methods, none of which are implemented (not properly at least). Here is an example:

double caclulateWeeklyPay(); // in Employee
double calculateWeeklyPay(double w, double h) // in HourlyEmployee

The parent class should contain the same signature (which includes parameters), and should look like this:

public abstract double calculateWeeklyPay(double w, double h);

Since this appears to be homework, I will leave the rest to you.

Solution 2

Just read the error message carefully:

HourlyEmployee is not abstract and does not override abstract method resetWeek() in Employee

It clearly indicates that your Employee class is abstract and has an abstract method resetWeek().

Your class HourlyEmployee which extends from Employee is not abstract, so it should override all abstract methods of the super class, as a concrete class can not have any abstract methods.

The reason is that your methods in the HourlyEmployee class have a different signature than those in the super class. So the method is not overridden, and the @Override annotation is not accepted by the compiler

Solution 3

as your HourlyEmployee *class is not abstract* you need to implement the abstract methods declared in your EMPLOYEE abstract class. which is quite obvious. you have to implement the below methods

 public abstract double caclulateWeeklyPay();

 public abstract void annualRaise();

 public abstract double holidayBonus();

 public abstract void resetWeek();