Method Local Inner Class Member scope access

Question

How do I access the method variable having the same name as the inner class member instance or method local variable of the inner class?

    class A{
                


        

Answer 1

that code will never output those statements, here is an example from Sun that should explain things :

    public class ShadowTest {
    public int x = 0;

    class FirstLevel {

        public int x = 1;

        void methodInFirstLevel(int x) {
            System.out.println("x = " + x);
            System.out.println("this.x = " + this.x);
            System.out.println("ShadowTest.this.x = " + ShadowTest.this.x);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String... args) {
        ShadowTest st = new ShadowTest();
        ShadowTest.FirstLevel fl = st.new FirstLevel();
        fl.methodInFirstLevel(23);
    }
}