I’m programming a game for a programming course in college, and I’ve run into some trouble with the .getConstructor method. What I’m trying to do is pass a class that has to be a subclass of another class as an argument into a method and create a new instance of that class there to do some other stu…

[image] PeterAmbos: Ingredient ingredient = ingredientClass.getDeclaredConstructor(sketchClass).newInstance(this); That got me an IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch, Java’s keyword this represents the current class’ code block type. Your newInstance(this) expects you to pass a…

Why does .getConstructor fail with a NoSuchMethodException despite zero-arg constructors existing for the class?

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Chrisir February 12, 2025, 4:32pm 2

m missing here

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Why does .getConstructor fail with a NoSuchMethodException despite zero-arg constructors existing for the class?

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