Cannot Find Symbol for simple primitive type

Question

I don't know if this is real life, but I'm getting a Cannot find symbol after I just declared a simple string and when I try to assign the value it gets the cannot find symbol. This happens even if it is static or another primitive type.I'm assuming it's something configuration issues.

Answer 1

In java class you can declare or define (initialize at the same time) variables but not set any values or initialize them later. The second line can only be done in a method body or a constructor.

Example 1:

public class Test
{
   String name;

   void doStuff(){
      name = "  ";
   }
}

Example 2:

public class Test
{
   String name = "set some value";
}

You can read more about it HERE .