How to access the private variables of a class in its subclass?

Question

This is a question I was asked in an interview: I have class A with private members and Class B extends A. I know private members of a class cannot be accessed, but the qu

Answer 1

• Private members cant be accessed in derived class
• If you want to access means you can use getter and setter methods.

class A
{
 private int a;
 void setA(int a)
 {
    this.a=a;
 }
 int getA()
 {
   return a;
 }
}

Class B extends A
{
 public static void main(String[] arg)
  {
     B obj= new B();
     obj.setA(10);
     System.out.println("The value of A is:"+obj.getA());
  } 
}