Re: ...inheritance and calling the grandchild not the childs implementation

From:
"Danno" <dh.evolutionnext@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
18 Sep 2006 10:34:22 -0700
Message-ID:
<1158600862.028544.250310@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
timasmith@hotmail.com wrote:

So I have (skipping some detail) the following:

public abstract class BaseObject implements IObject {

   public abstract void setMethod();
}

public class ChildObject extends BaseObject implements IObject {
    public void setMethod() {
        // Child implementation
    }
}

public class GrandChildObject extends ChildObject {
    @override
    public void setMethod() {
        // grand Child implementation
    }
}

then when I am in a method

public void testThis(Object o) {

    ((IObject) o).setMethod();

}

it executes the ChildObjects implementation

so I tried this

public void testThis(Class GrandChildClass, Object o) {
   IBaseObject myObject = (IBaseObject) GrandChildClass.cast(o);
   myObject.setMethod();
}

but it still executes the Child method!

How can I execute the GrandChild method from testThis without directly
casting it to a grand child?

thanks

Tim


Strange code not withstanding. An object can never change
implementation eventhough you are calling it with a different pointer.
 So if you create a grandchild object and even though you cast it to a
superclass pointer it is still going to be grandchild. Same rules apply
for child, and Base Object. Once an object is created you can't change
what it is.

BTW, my suggestion is you may want to make it easy on yourself and
clean up your code to keep it simple.

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