Java class compile time error "Cannot access interface"

Question

I have an interface stores which has two methods getName() and getAddres(), and I have a class Market which implements Stores This is my code:

public interface Stores {
    public String getName();
    public String getAddress();
}

And the concrete class:

public class Market implements Stores {
    private String name;
    private String address;
    private int size;

    public Market(String name, String address, int size) {
        this.name = name;
        this.address = address;
        this.size = size;
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    @Override
    public String getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    public int getSize() {
        return size;
    }
}

I get errors in constructor regarding this.name=name, this.address=address and this.size=size saying that "Cannot access stores". Any ideas why?

Answer 1

It's 2020 and I'm still having this issue in IntelliJ Idea. Sometimes a restart of the IDE is enough but today I had to File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart in order for it to recognise a new interface that I had written. Refused to recognise it in package local as well as when explicitly imported to other packages.

Answer 2

I've faced the same issue in Intetlij. It was very weird for me what had helped:

I had to change any value in pom.xml (I've used "mainClass"). Then change it back (since value was correct). Project view was refreshed and class starts to see the interface.