Getting hold of the outer class object from the inner class object

Question

I have the following code. I want to get hold of the outer class object using which I created the inner class object inner. How can I do it?

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Answer 1

Here's the example:

// Test
public void foo() {
    C c = new C();
    A s;
    s = ((A.B)c).get();
    System.out.println(s.getR());
}

// classes
class C {}

class A {
   public class B extends C{
     A get() {return A.this;}
   }
   public String getR() {
     return "This is string";
   }
}