return subtype

[TheSheepeh]

Think I got the title right there.

Basically I have a superclass called SpaceObject. I have another superclass below that of SpaceShip(and then different spaceships below this)

I have an arraylist of SpaceObjects. How can I know if an element in my arraylist of SpaceObjects is a SpaceShip?

public SpaceObject getType(){

return this;
}

I imagine something like this would work, but can't work out how I would do an if statement to check if its type SpaceShip (and what type of spaceship would be handy)

Thanks!

[doWhile]

If I understand correctly, instanceof might be what you are looking for

if ( this instanceof SpaceShip ){
///I'm a spaceship
}

Note that calling something like

if ( myClass instanceof SpaceObject){//true for all child classes of SpaceObject

}

will evaluate to true for all child classes as well. There are other ways to go about this, for example defining the type in the constructors.

[TheSheepeh]

Yup

That's done the trick, thx alot

[sunde887]

If you are done please mark your thread solved with the thread tools. Glad you figured it out.