Re: Inheritance Question

From:

Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:24:23 +0200

Message-ID:

<g7d1a8$ma9$1@registered.motzarella.org>

On 06/08/2008 20:07, jsguru72 allegedly wrote:

Thanks for your reply. After posting, I did additional testing and
came up with a solution that seems to work. It is similar to what you
provided Joshua.

On 06/08/2008 19:58, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
> This is how I do it:
>
> public abstract class Fruit {
>
> private String type;
>
> protected Fruit(String type) {
> this.type = type;
> }
>
> public String whatAmI() {
> return this.type;
> }
> }
>

public class Apple extends Fruit {
   public Apple() {
      super("Apple");
   }
}

Alternatively...
<code>
//Parent Abstract Class
public abstract class Fruit {
     protected String fruit = "Fruit";

     public String whatAmI() {
         return fruit;
     }
}

//Subclass
public class Apple extends Fruit {
     public Apple() {
         fruit = "Apple";
     }

     public static void main(String [] args) {
         Apple myApple = new Apple();

         System.out.println("-->" + myApple.whatAmI() );
     }
}
</code>

....would work, too. It's not very clean, however.

What Joshua wrote is "how I do it".

--
DF.