Re: package protected and compile error

gk wrote:


You can do that this way:

                   i = ((SubclassY)objX).superclassVarX;

Of course objX must be instance of SubclassY here.


In addition to already posted advices reading JLS3 chapter 6.6.2.1 may
appear helpful too.

Anyway, if you really need that, you can quite easily extend the default
base class members access by introducing special static protected
methods in your base class.

That is, after adding the following methods to your SuperclassX:

     static protected int getSuperclassVarXOf(SuperclassX me) {
         return me.superclassVarX;
     }
     static protected void setSuperclassVarXOf(SuperclassX me, int val) {
         me.superclassVarX = val;
     }

you will be able to safely access/modify protected superclassVarX
instance field in all subclasses of your class, in the way like that:

     i = getSuperclassVarXOf(objX);

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