Constructor Chaos

[derrickD]

I am having a situation where sometimes the parameter sent to instantiate one of my classes is null. It is not, howver , calling the constructor I thought it would call. So, I made a test case and sure enough I am not getting what I thought.

Code:

public class MyClass
{
  private MyClass()
 {
   System.out.println("No param sent");
  }
	
  private MyClass(Object o)
  {
	System.out.println("Object");
  }

  private MyClass(double[] dArray)
 {
   System.out.println("double array");
  }

  public static void main(String[] args)
 {
	new MyClass(null);
  }
}

I thought it would call the constructor that has no signature but it appears to call the double[] dArray constructor.

[pegitha]

Overload selects the most specific constructor. I guess it is detemining that the double dArray constructor is the most specific. Maybe you should avoid all these overloads or at least make them more specific (i.e. do not use Object in that one).
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