Class and SuperClass

I have a super class: public static class StructClass(){} // this is empty

Now a class is declared which is extends a Structclass:

Code:

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public static class myStruct extends structClass {
      public DV v1 = new DV(..);
      public DV v2 = new DV(..);
 
      public myStruct(DV v1copy, DV v2copy) {
            v1 = v1copy;
            v2 = v2copy;
      }
}

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DV is a class object I have created.

Now I am declaring a myStruct variable:
DV myS = new DV(4, "shared", (structClass)new myStruct(DV.Constant(1), DV.Constant(2)));

This DV is different. The DV function is:

Code:

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public DV(int vtype, String scope, structClass value) {
 
      ......
      DVStructVal = new StructClass();
      DVStructVal = value;
}

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This is compiling fine. I need the super class to generalize the DV function for different classes like myStruct classes declared. But, this way I cannot access the class variable.

I am trying: myS.DVStructVal.v1. I am getting the error that v1 does not exist. myS.v1 is also not working. Does this mean DVStructVal is just a structClass and not myStruct. How can I access v1 and v2?

I need a generalized class. The DV class is needed. I am supposed to declare different classes like myStruct class and use the same DV class for them. Can you help me with that?

Any help will be appreciated! Thanks!
Kajari

Welcome to the forum!

From my understanding of your post, I see a problem here:

Quote:

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Now I am declaring a myStruct variable:
DV myS = ....

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myS is most definitely not a myStruct variable but rather a DV variable. Perhaps you're declaring this wrong? Perhaps you want to do it like so:

Code:

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myStruct myS = new myStruct(/*  etc...  */);

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If you did this, then myS.v1 would compile and make sense although it goes against the OOP principle of encapsulation.

Also, I added code tags to make your code retain its formatting and thus be more readable. You might want to do this yourself next time you post code. It's easy to do: either highlight your pasted code and press the "CODE" button, or place the tag [code] above your code and [/code] below your code.

Best of luck and hope this helps.

Unless these are inner classes then this can't be compiling, because "static" is not a valid keyword for a class declaration. As well as you're casing being all over the place. You really ought to cut and paste the actual code you're working on.

Also there's no need to cast from "new MyStruct" to "StructClass" since it is already a StructClass.

Onto the actual problem, what are the different things that DV is supposed to work with, and what common things do they do? What is DV supposed to do with the DV objects held in MyStruct? If there are always going to be DV objects in these different classes then they probably should be in the StructClass.

All in all we have little information here to actually make an informed answer.

ETA: You also don't need to be instantiating the DV variables in MyStruct at the top, since they get a value in the constructor it's a complete waste of time.