Can one class extend two classes?

不想你离开。 提交于 2019-11-27 11:32:17

Java does not support multiple inheritance.

There are a few workarounds I can think of:

The first is aggregation: make a class that takes those two activities as fields.

The second is to use interfaces.

The third is to rethink your design: does it make sense for a Preferences class to be both a PreferenceActivity and an AbstractBillingActivity?

Java doesn't support multiple inheritance. You can implement multiple interfaces, but not extend multiple classes.

Jonny Rimkus

Another solution is to create a private inner class that extends the second class. e.g a class that extends JMenuItem and AbstractAction:

public class MyClass extends JMenuItem {


    private class MyAction extends AbstractAction {
        // This class can access everything from its parent...
    }

}

Java 1.8 (as well as Groovy and Scala) has a thing called "Interface Defender Methods", which are interfaces with pre-defined default method bodies. By implementing multiple interfaces that use defender methods, you could effectively, in a way, extend the behavior of two interface objects.

Also, in Groovy, using the @Delegate annotation, you can extend behavior of two or more classes (with caveats when those classes contain methods of the same name). This code proves it:

class Photo {
    int width
    int height
}    
class Selection {
    @Delegate Photo photo    
    String title
    String caption
}    
def photo = new Photo(width: 640, height: 480)
def selection = new Selection(title: "Groovy", caption: "Groovy", photo: photo)
assert selection.title == "Groovy"
assert selection.caption == "Groovy"    
assert selection.width == 640
assert selection.height == 480

No you cannot make a class extend to two classes.

A possible solution is to make it extend from another class, and make that class extend from another again.

Java does not support multiple inheritance. However, your problem may be solved using interfaces.

The easiest solution would be to create an interface for AbstractBillingActivity and PreferenceActivityand implement them both.

What you're asking about is multiple inheritance, and it's very problematic for a number of reasons. Multiple inheritance was specifically avoided in Java; the choice was made to support multiple interface implementation, instead, which is the appropriate workaround.

Java does not support multiple inheritance, that's why you can't extend a class from two different classes at the same time.

Rather, use a single class to extend from, and use interfaces to include additional functionality.

Familiar with multilevel hierarchy?

You can use subclass as superclass to your another class.

You can try this.

public class PreferenceActivity extends AbstractBillingActivity {}

then

public class Preferences extends PreferenceActivity {}

In this case, Preferences class inherits both PreferencesActivity and AbstractBillingActivity as well.

I can think of a workaround that can help if the classes you want to extend include only methods.

Write these classes as interfaces. In Java, you can implements any number of interfaces, and implement the methods as default methods in the interfaces.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/default-methods-java/

Also, instead of inner classes, you can use your 2 or more classes as fields.

For example:

Class Man{
private Phone ownPhone;
private DeviceInfo info;
//sets; gets
}
Class Phone{
private String phoneType;
private Long phoneNumber;
//sets; gets
}

Class DeviceInfo{

String phoneModel;
String cellPhoneOs;
String osVersion;
String phoneRam;
//sets; gets

}

So, here you have a man who can have some Phone with its number and type, also you have DeviceInfo for that Phone.

Also, it's possible is better to use DeviceInfo as a field into Phone class, like

class Phone {
DeviceInfo info;
String phoneNumber;
Stryng phoneType;
//sets; gets
}

If you are interested in using methods from multiple classes, the best way to approach to it is to use Composition instead of Inheritence

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