How can I overide the parent class constructor?

This may be bad practice but I still want to learn how to do this.

I would like to override my parent class constructor. But as this code turns out, Truck displays the parent class constructor.

How can I accomplish overriding the parent class constructor? And if this is bad practice let me know, but I would still like to know if this is possible.

Code:

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public class Vehicle {
   
      Vehicle() {
            System.out.println("I'm a vehicle");
      }
}
class Car extends Vehicle {
      Car() {
            super();
            System.out.println("I'm also a CAR.");
      }
}
class Truck extends Vehicle {
      Truck() {
            System.out.println("Please call me TRUCK only. Don't call me Vehicle!"); //
      }
}

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Originally Posted by AcousticBruce

This may be bad practice but I still want to learn how to do this.

I would like to override my parent class constructor. But as this code turns out, Truck displays the parent class constructor.

How can I accomplish overriding the parent class constructor? And if this is bad practice let me know, but I would still like to know if this is possible.

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It's not "bad practice", rather it's impossible. Constructors are not virtual and can't be overridden. This makes sense because the object doesn't exist when the constructor is called, and so it can't be called on an object.

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Originally Posted by Fubarable

It's not "bad practice", rather it's impossible. Constructors are not virtual and can't be overridden. This makes sense because the object doesn't exist when the constructor is called, and so it can't be called on an object.

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Now that makes sense, thanks a lot Fubarable.

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Originally Posted by AcousticBruce

Now that makes sense, thanks a lot Fubarable.

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Constructors should have code that is necessary to create the object and initialize its state, so I don't know why you'd want to not initialize the parent object. Is there an unmentioned objective behind your thread? Also, you can overload constructors, so if you want a different initialization for the parent, then you could use more than one constructor. Also, there are other ways to create objects that may be useful to you such as use of an abstract factory pattern, something I'm still learning about.

No objective. I was just trying things in the code to see what happens. It was a question that popped up in my head.

Effective Java 2nd chapter starts talking about factory methods and it lost me almost instantly :D That was when I was first starting though.

it is not possible to override the super class constructor ...because by default any constructor could not have "return" type....as the same time java does allow methods with out "return" types so it is impossible to override parent class constructor