Accessing constructor of an anonymous class

Question

Lets say I have a concrete class Class1 and I am creating an anonymous class out of it.

Object a = new Class1(){
        void someNewMethod(){
        }
             


        

Answer 1

I know the thread is too old to post an answer. But still i think it is worth it.

Though you can't have an explicit constructor, if your intention is to call the constructor of the super class, then the following is all you have to do.

StoredProcedure sp = new StoredProcedure(datasource, spName) {
    {// init code if there are any}
};

This is an example of creating a StoredProcedure object in Spring by passing a DataSource and a String object.

So the Bottom line is, if you want to create an anonymous class and want to call the super class constructor then create the anonymous class with a signature matching the super class constructor.