Bypass multiple inheritance in Java

I think that there's a solution to my inheritance problem but I can't find it.

I'm developing an Android application (target is Android 2.1) which reuses a SlidingDrawer (for my menu) on most of the pages. In order to avoid to initialize it on all the Activity I created a DefaultActivity to do so. It worked well until I had to extends TabActivity because Java doesn't support multiple inheritance.

Basically I have the following Default activity

public class DefaultActivity extends Activity{ 
    // Declarations

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Some code
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        // Some code
    }

    protected void initializeMenu() {
        // Init
    }
}

Now when I have an activity I do the following

public class SomeActivity extends DefaultActivity{ 
    // Declarations

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.myLayout);
        super.initializeMenu();
    }
}

But I have a view which extends TabActivity so I can't do

public class SomeOtherActivity extends TabActivity, DefaultActivity

How can I do to have only one class to extends but which contains the code for an Activity and TabActivity ?

Thanks.

I would use composition instead of inheritance for DefaultActivity.

Create a class ActivityHelper which does everything DefaultActivty does. Then your activities all have a member variable of type ActivityHelper.

  public class ActivityHelper { 
  // Declarations

  @Override
   public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Activity activity, Menu menu) {
    // Some code
  }

  @Override
  protected void onPause(activity) {
    // Some code
   }

   protected void initializeMenu(activity) {
    // Init


   }
}

public class MyActivity extends Activity { 
  private final ActivityHelper helper;

  @Override
   public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    helper.onCreateOptionsMenu(this, menu)
  }

  @Override
  protected void onPause() {
    helper.onPause(this);
  }

   protected void initializeMenu() {
     helper.initializeMenu(this)
   }
}

It's a little more code, but much more flexible. This will only work if your DefaultActivity does not rely on protected methods in Activity.

Tab Activity.

This class is deprecated. New applications should use Fragments instead of this class; to continue to run on older devices, you can use the v4 support library which provides a version of the Fragment API that is compatible down to DONUT.

Put TabActivity as a data member instead of extending it, and delegate each method you don't want to override to it, and the others implement yourself. That won't solve problems, tough, that the method resides both in DefaultActivity and TabActivity (I guess there are a bunch...). This is why Java does not allow multiple inheritance :)

Hope it helps.

usually in general programming we do add a field of that object to use multiple inheritance

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9081818/bypass-multiple-inheritance-in-java

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