Re: Cannot override protected fields
You know, that has nothing to do with protected fields. In fact the
same would be true if the fields were public.
What you might want is something like this:
public class ChildForm extends ParentForm {
public ChildForm() {
name = "ChildForm";
}
}
This way, instead of declaring another member variable with the same
name as the parent class you assign the parent's name variable a new
value upon construction. :)
DeeGoogle escreveu:
I know this is not possible, but my question is why did they design it
that way:
public class ParentForm {
protected String name = "ParentForm";
protected String getName(){return name;}
}
public class ChildForm extends ParentForm{
protected String name = "ChildForm"; //I am trying to override
the field value but reuse the method from parent.
}
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println((new ParentForm()).getName());
System.out.println((new ChildForm()).getName());
}
}
Output:
ParentForm
ParentForm
I wanted to see "ChildForm" in the second line. Why do I have to
duplicate (literally cut and paste) the getName() method in the child
to achieve it ?
Can someone explain the concept I am missing ?
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