If you put a return statement in the if, while or for statement then it may or may not return a value. If it will not go inside these statements then also that method should return some value (that …

Sep 6, 2016 · The error missing return statement is because you are not specify return statement if n is less than 1.. So, what this fucntion return if the provided parameter n is less than 1 like 0.

Nov 19, 2013 · In java, a method which has defined return type can not end normally with out returning. You must return value from the method with out any implicit/explicit condition.

May 28, 2021 · You declare the method to return a boolean value, but then you don't have a return statement to return this boolean.

May 28, 2017 · The answer will almost everytime jump you straight in the face since there is just so much material on the java programming language Stackoverflow is much more a question …

Java requires that non-void methods are guaranteed to return something (even if it's null). If there is an if statement, by definition, only sometimes your return statements are run.

Nov 5, 2015 · So the catch block also needs to return something (or throw an exception, or return something after the try/catch construct entirely). Edit: Looking again, you're also potentially …

The "set_Grade" method is not returning a "String" and therefore the compiler doesn't like it. This type of method is known as a "setter" or "mutator" ( as opposed to a "getter" or "accessor"). …

Java must look at all execution paths. What happens if the while loop ends without returning anything? You may be logically preventing that, but the Java compiler won't do that analysis. …

Dec 21, 2012 · You would be better off defining the return variable at the top, setting it to values wherever you need to within the method body, breaking out of the 'for' loop and returning it …