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Posted by Christian Schmitt on December 13, 2000 at 9:01 AM

Hi, Kishori.

Thanks for such a good answer, now i understand why it did not work.

But i do not understand why the solution (in fact it's more an evasion than a solution) i found some days ago does work:

Mapped to the example we used, i did the following:

I put the method

protected B newB(String s, boolean b){ return new B(s,b);}

in class A and the method-call

B b1 = this.newB(s,b);

in the method f of class C (i will put the complete code of this classes to the bottom of this posting.)
Speeking in OO-terms, because an instance of C is an A, it has the method newB(...). But inside newB(...) the protected constructor of B is called to which this instance of C has no access, as you pointed out. Though it works. It seems to me as if 'this.newB(...)' is in fact 'super.newB(...)'?

Definitively: If i overwrite the method newB(...) in C with the same code as in A (so it should not change anything), the compiler complains.

I cannot decide whether this is a lack of understanding on my side or a not-so-lucky-design-feature of java, or if it even is wanted behaviour a i am not able to see why it is wanted.

Thank you,
Chris

Here comes the code:

--> Class A: <--

package apack;

public class A {

protected class B {
protected String s ;
protected boolean b ;

protected B (String s, boolean b) {
this.s = s ;
this.b = b ;
}
public void msg ( ) {
System.out.println ( "String = " + s + " Boolean = " + b );
}
}

//That's my 'evasion-method'
protected B newB(String s, boolean b){
return new B(s,b);
}

}

-->> and Class C: <<--

package cpack;

import apack.A;

public class C extends A {

public void f( String s, boolean b ) {
B b1 = this.newB( s, b );
b1.msg ( ) ;
}

public static void main ( String[] args ) {
new C ( ).f ( "hello", true ) ;

}

//Delete the '//' in the following lines to annoy the Compiler
//protected B newB(String s, boolean b){
// return new B(s,b);
//}

}

(Besides: After i read your answer, i thought: Ok, i'll subclass A$B with a inner class D of C and create a new D (and with that a B) in f with
B b1 = new D(b,s);
but then the compiler complains again...as far as i understand now, this complaining is about the call super() in the Constructor of D...)

• U got it... Kishori Sharan December 13, 2000 at 2:24 PM (0)