Re: How to create a new instance of an extended type
"Bryan" <BTRichardson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello all,
Say I have the following two objects:
public class ObjectA {
public void load() { }
}
public class ObjectB extends ObjectA { }
ObjectB is a rarely used extension of ObjectA, but does need to be
created every once in a while. What I want to be able to do is load
data into ObjectA, and if certain data criteria is met I want ObjectA
to now be of type ObjectB instead. Is there any way to "perminately
cast" the type of an object? For instance, is there a way to make an
object that was created as ObjectA now be as if it were created as
ObjectB?
No. A better model for this might be:
Interface AorB{ ...}
public class ObjectA implements AorB{
public AorB load() {
// load the data into this.
if (needB())
return new ObjectB(this);
else
return this;
}
private boolean needB() {}
}
public class ObjectB implements AorB{
private Object A a;
ObjectB(ObjectA a)
{
this.a = a;
}
}
This is, have ObjectB add behavior to an ObjectA by wrapping it, and express
their common behavior by interface implementation rather then inheritance.
The only drawback is that you might wind up writing a fair amount of
delegation code in ObjectB, e.g.
foo(args) { return a.foo(args); }
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