Setters meant to prevent wrong data types from being entered are not working

[web7702363797]

This Codecademy exercise has me creating setters to prevent object properties from being set with incorrect data types. As far as I can tell, my code matches exactly what Codecademy’s “get unstuck” video shows and yet I am still able to set my object properties to whatever data types I want. When I print, it should return ‘Meal or price was not set correctly’ but instead it prints “today’s special is 10 for burger dollars!” There are no errors messages, what am I missing?

const menu = {
_meal: ’ ',
_price: 0,
set meal(mealToCheck) {
if (typeof mealToCheck === ‘string’) {
return this._meal = mealToCheck;
}
},
set price(priceToCheck) {
if (typeof priceToCheck === ‘number’) {
return this._price = priceToCheck;
}
},
get todaysSpecial() {
if (this._meal && this._price ) {
return today's special is ${this._meal} for ${this._price} dollars!
} else {
return ‘Meal or price was not set correctly!’
}
}
};

menu._meal = 10;
menu._price = ‘Burger’;

console.log(menu.todaysSpecial)

[jameskeezer]

At the end of your file, right before console.log - change the lines to menu.meal and menu.price

Your code is manually setting the _meal and _price properties instead of using the .meal and .price setters

[mtf]

In addition to the above response, consider that setters need getters. Read up on this in the technique writing. Also, setters don’t return anything, they only set their respective properties.

a = {
    _prop: 'prop',
    get prop () {
        return this._prop
    },
    set prop (value) {
        this._prop = value
    }
}

Furthermore,

get todaysSpecial

should not be written as a getter, just a method. It should employ the getters when polling the variables.

todaysSpecial () {
    if (this.meal && this.price) {

    }
}