Re: How to obtain the subclass name from superclass?
Thomas Fritsch wrote:
Lew wrote:
Thomas Fritsch wrote:
Write this method in class Animal:
public void printOut()
{
System.out.println(getClass().getName() + " is cute!");
}
Note that this depends on the override of getClass().
Somewhere there will be an override.
Eeeh... no!
The declaration in class java.lang.Object is
public final native Class getClass();
Hence, because method getClass() is final it cannot be overridden.
The fact that getClass() returns different class objects (Dog.class,
Cat.class or whatever) is achieved by the native code, not by any
overriding.
Well, shiver me timbers!
The native code acts like the helper methods I described elsewhere in this
thread, so while getClass() itself is final, the logic that it calls in turn
is non-final. Just take my argument and push it back to the point where the
class behavior is actually overridden.
>> Somewhere there will be an override.
still holds.
--
Lew
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