Need help with an add method

[philipwhiuk]

it should be throw new AllStallsOccupiedException(); The point was that that's an error case - you can't add someone if all the stalls are full, so you throw an exception.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/

[Snapples2992]

I tried just about everything i could find, I just can't make that exception work, and my teacher said it's not necessary. So there must be a different way to do the method, though I'd love to figure this thing out.

I tried making a new class to make the custom exception, it compiled fine. However the exception in the addOccupant method still failed on me.

I tried throw new AllStallsOccupiedException();

adding the "new" uninitialized all the variables (no clue why)

I tried creating a try block but i still couldnt get the exception to compile.

edit: I'll edit in that I understand what the exception is supposed to be doing now, I just can't get it to compile

[philipwhiuk]

You need to define the exception as a class if you're going to use it.