"Actual or formal argument lists differs in length"

Question

When I try to put something in the () brackets of Friends f = new Friends(friendsName, friendsAge); it comes up with the error:

Constructor Friends in class Friends cannot by applied to given types. Required: no arguments. Found: String, int. Reason: actual or formal argument lists differ in length.

But when I take out the arguments my friends list only displays "null 0". Are the values not set even though I have String friendsName = input.next();?

Also, when I try to remove a friend, it doesn't do anything. In the source code it does bring up a warning,

Suspicious call to util.java.Collection.remove: Given object cannot contain given instances of String (expected Friends).

I'm confused on what that all means?

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Friends
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        int menu;       
        int choice;
        choice = 0;      

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        ArrayList< Friends > friendsList = new ArrayList<  >();       

        System.out.println(" 1. Add a Friend ");
        System.out.println(" 2. Remove a Friend ");
        System.out.println(" 3. Display All Friends ");
        System.out.println(" 4. Exit ");
        menu = input.nextInt();

        while(menu != 4)
        {    

            switch(menu)
            {                     

            case 1:

                while(choice != 2)
                {
                    System.out.println("Enter Friend's Name: ");
                    String friendsName = input.next();
                    System.out.println("Enter Friend's Age: ");
                    int friendsAge = input.nextInt();                               
                    Friends f = new Friends(friendsName, friendsAge);
                    friendsList.add(f);
                    System.out.println("Enter another? 1: Yes, 2: No");
                    choice = input.nextInt();
                } break;

            case 2:

                System.out.println("Enter Friend's Name to Remove: ");
                friendsList.remove(input.next());                   
                break;   

            case 3:

                for(int i = 0; i < friendsList.size(); i++)
                {
                    System.out.println(friendsList.get(i).name + " " + friendsList.get(i).age);                        
                } break;                
        }

        System.out.println(" 1. Add a Friend ");
        System.out.println(" 2. Remove a Friend ");
        System.out.println(" 3. Display All Friends ");
        System.out.println(" 4. Exit ");
        menu = input.nextInt();

    }

    System.out.println("Thank you and goodbye!");

}

    public String name;
    public int age;    

    public void setName( String friendsName )
    {
        name = friendsName;
    } 
    public void setAge( int friendsAge )
    {
        age = friendsAge;
    }
    public String getName()
    {
        return name;
    }
    public int getAge()
    {
        return age;
    }
}

Answer 1

You try to instantiate an object of the Friends class like this:

Friends f = new Friends(friendsName, friendsAge);

The class does not have a constructor that takes parameters. You should either add the constructor, or create the object using the constructor that does exist and then use the set-methods. For example, instead of the above:

Friends f = new Friends();
f.setName(friendsName);
f.setAge(friendsAge);

Answer 2

If you are working with daggger like me, such condition may occur. This meant that, first you have one parameter, and then you add second parameter to dagger constructor. So when dagger auto generate code, it gives error - " dependency injection actual and formal argument lists differ in length "

You should

1. invalidate and caches
2. Rebuid-project

it helps dagger to identify your new added paramter, then your project works again ))