Can I have different copies of a static variable for each different type of inheriting class

Question

I want to have the same static variable with a different value depending on the type of class.

So I would have

public class Entity
{
     public stat         


        

Answer 1

I had the same question and came to the solution to use a static mapping

Class --> Object.

The following code example uses Integer as the type of the desired "class-static" variable.

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;

class C
{
    static Map,  Integer> class2IntegerMap = new HashMap, Integer>();


    public void setClassSpecificInteger(Integer _i)
    {
        class2IntegerMap.put(this.getClass(), _i);
    }

    public Integer getClassSpecificInteger()
    {
        return class2IntegerMap.get(this.getClass());    
    }           
}

class CA extends C
{
}

class CB extends C
{
}

class CAA extends CA
{
}

public class MainClass
{
    public static void main(String []args)
    {
        CA a1 = new CA();
        CA a2 = new CA();
        CB b1 = new CB();
        CB b2 = new CB();
        CAA aa1 = new CAA();

        a1.setClassSpecificInteger(Integer.valueOf(-1));
        b1.setClassSpecificInteger(Integer.valueOf(+33));

        System.out.println("The int-value for a1 is: "+a1.getClassSpecificInteger());
        System.out.println("The int-value for b1 is: "+b1.getClassSpecificInteger());

        System.out.println("The int-value for aa1 is: "+aa1.getClassSpecificInteger());

        System.out.println("The int-value for a2 is: "+a2.getClassSpecificInteger());
        System.out.println("The int-value for b2 is: "+b2.getClassSpecificInteger());

        CA a3 = new CA();
        CB b3 = new CB();

        System.out.println("The int-value for a3 is: "+a3.getClassSpecificInteger());
        System.out.println("The int-value for b3 is: "+b3.getClassSpecificInteger());

        CAA aa2 = new CAA();

        aa2.setClassSpecificInteger(Integer.valueOf(8));

        System.out.println("The int-value for aa1 now is: "+aa1.getClassSpecificInteger());
    } 
} 

The output is:

The int-value for a1 is: -1
The int-value for b1 is: 33
The int-value for aa1 is: null
The int-value for a2 is: -1
The int-value for b2 is: 33
The int-value for a3 is: -1
The int-value for b3 is: 33
The int-value for aa1 now is: 8

I hope this helps someone. Please be kind.