Syntax error, insert "VariableDeclarators" to complete LocalVariableDeclaration occurs

Question

public class Water {
    private Graphic graphic;
    private float speed;
    private float distanceTraveled;

    public Water(float x, float y, float direction) 
    {
        speed = 0.7f;

        graphic = new Graphic();
        graphic.setType("WATER");   

        graphic.setX(x);
        graphic.setY(y);

        direction = graphic.getDirection(); //direction from Hero as water is fired
    }
    public Water update(int time) 
    {
        graphic.draw();
        return Water.this;
        distanceTraveled; // this is where the error occured...
    }
}

When I tried to call distanceTraveled, I am getting the error as:

Syntax error, insert "VariableDeclarators" to complete LocalVariableDeclaration

Answer 1

To make the Syntax error disappear and to assign a value to distanceTraveledmodify the method public Water update(int time) as follows:

public Water update(int time) {
    graphic.draw();
    distanceTraveled = 1; // assign a value before returning
    return Water.this;
}

Maybe you should read a bit about Java and doing some tutorials, because this is very basic stuff (at least if I'm not getting you wrong).