Re: Protected and package in iterface
tam@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
On Dec 18, 10:38 am, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:
So make the interface itself package-private, or nest it and declare it any
access level you want. Doesn't that do what you need?
>
While I think that keeps knowledge of the interfaces from the public,
the requirement that methods be public makes it hard to hide those.
E.g., in package 'vehicles' we have interfaces Serviceable and
Warranteeable with methods service and warrantee that should only be
used within the package. The interfaces are declared with package
visibility. We create a public class Car (in vechicles) which
implements these interfaces. If I now create an instance of Car and
use it outside the package, I can't cast it explicitly to Serviceable
or Warranteeable, but I can access the service and warrantee methods.
While not quite the same thing, this should be sufficient:
public class Car {
class PackageView implements Serviceable, Warranteeable {
// Methods, etc.
}
PackageView getPackageView() {
return new PackageView();
}
}
It's a cheap-ish hack, but it does a fair job of emulating C++'s
protected or private inheritance.
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