Hi, I have the below query.Please help me to resolve it.
Superclass: Class A. Class B extends Class A and Class C extends Class A. Class D extends Class B and Class C,But according to Java Concept you cannot extend more than 1 class.So how i achieve this in Java.?
Example provided will be highly appreciated to solve the above scenario Help provided will be highly appreciated.
-- Deepak Lal
When The Going Gets Tougher,The Tougher gets Going
CLASS C EXTENDS B | |-- The problem lies in this stmt i.e Class C is extending Class B but i want Class C to extend Class A not Class B.I dont want Class C to inherit properties of Class B...Hope its clear now. so how do i achieve it ??
CLASS D EXTENDS C -- this does not come in to picture if the previous step is invalid.
classes can't use multiple inheritance but a class can implement multiple interfaces and an interface can extend multiple interfaces.
a possible solution for your problem is to use a combination of interfaces and composition. I've given an indicative solution below. Bear in mind that: B instanceof A = true BImpl instanceof A = true BImpl instanceof AImpl = false
Also, to get this to work correctly, all methods exposed in the concrete implementation of A (AImpl) must be defined in the interface A.
[ November 26, 2008: Message edited by: Paul Beckett ]
I am not trying drawing on the screen, but if you draw a UML diagram of your classes A B C D you may see the relationship better. It will look something like this, only with nice squares and proper black heads to the arrows.
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
What you describe later is called diamond inheritance and looks a bit like thisAnd Paul Beckett has explained how to deal with that. You cannot implement diamond inheritance in Java (nor in C#) by using the extends keyword.
Joined: Jun 14, 2008
yes Deepak, you are right. C doesn't extend B so CImpl does not need to implement methodB.