Set Field Text, Java - user-interface

Question

I have two classes. MetaDataExtractor(GUI) and MetaData.
MetaData has the method which extracts the metadata from an image. MetaDataExtractor is designed to display the data in a JTextPane. (Please excuse the class names. I know it's a little confusing. I'm fairly new to Java).
MetaDataExtractor:
LongitudeField.setText("" + MetaDataTags.getLongitude());
MetaData:
public String getLongitude() {
try {
Metadata metadata = ImageMetadataReader.readMetadata(jpegFile);
if (metadata.containsDirectory(GpsDirectory.class)) {
GpsDirectory gpsDir = (GpsDirectory) metadata.getDirectory(GpsDirectory.class);
GpsDescriptor gpsDesc = new GpsDescriptor(gpsDir);
String Longitude = "" + gpsDesc.getGpsLongitudeDescription();
}
} catch (ImageProcessingException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(MetaData.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
System.out.println("Error 1");
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(MetaData.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
System.out.println("Error 2");
}
return longitude;
}
If I set the longitude to be displayed in the JTextPane, it returns "null". If however, I set it to print out on the command line, it prints the longitude fine?
Please excuse me if its a simple solution. I'm still getting to grips with Java.

Answer 1

Java is case sensitive and declare firstly your variable outside of try & catch statement.
Use a IDE like Eclipse to reduce syntax errors like these.
so you should have :
public String getLongitude() {
String longitudeDesc ="";
try {
Metadata metadata = ImageMetadataReader.readMetadata(jpegFile);
if (metadata.containsDirectory(GpsDirectory.class)) {
GpsDirectory gpsDir = (GpsDirectory) metadata.getDirectory(GpsDirectory.class);
GpsDescriptor gpsDesc = new GpsDescriptor(gpsDir);
longitudeDesc = "" + gpsDesc.getGpsLongitudeDescription();
}
} catch (ImageProcessingException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(MetaData.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
System.out.println("Error 1");
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(MetaData.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
System.out.println("Error 2");
}
return longitudeDesc ;
}