Re: private instance variable of derived class not always returned
by base class getter?
Piet wrote:
Conclusions:
1. If I want to access a private instance variable (declared in a
derived class) by a method declared in the superclass, binding of that
private variable to the instance of the derived class must occur in a
base class method, i. e. I must call a "super" method at some point.
2. If I want to access a private instance variable (declared in a
derived class) by a method declared in the derived class (which amy
override a superclass method), it must be explicitly bound to the
instance inside a method declared in the derived class.
I never had to deal with inheritance issues like that, but now, the
more I think about it, the more sense does it make.
Try this:
class Base
{
private String name;
public Base()
{
this.name = "Base default";
}
public Base( String name )
{
this.name = name;
}
public String getName()
{
return this.name;
}
}
public class Derived extends Base
{
private String name;
public Derived( String name )
{
this.name = name;
}
public String getName()
{
return this.name;
}
public String getBaseName()
{
return super.getName();
}
public static void main( String [] args )
{
Derived d = new Derived( "Derived test" );
System.out.println( "Derived name = "+ d.getName() );
System.out.println( "Base name = "+ d.getBaseName() );
}
}
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