Inheriting an inner class whilst using the variables from a subclass

[loki20884]

Hello,

I'm having a problem at the moment where I'm attempting to inherit an inner class from the superclass. The problem I'm having is that I'm defining the variables that are in use from the subclass in the superclass but not initializing them. When I instantiate the innerclass from the subclass it just uses the uninitialized variables from the superclass rather than the initialized ones in the subclass and so I'm getting lots of null pointer exceptions. Is there an easy way to do this. Below is an example of the kind of thing I am trying to do.

class Parent {
int var1;
int var2;
Vector vector;

class ParentInnerClass {

public ParentInnerClass{
super();
}

private void useVariables() {
for(int i; i<vector.size(); i++) {
System.out.println(var1 + " " + var2);
   }
}

And then in a different class file.

class Child extends Parent {
int var1 = 1;
int var2 = 2;
Vector vector = new Vector();
vector.add(1);
vector.add(1);
ParentInnerClass parentInnerClass = new ParentInnerClass();
parentInnerClass.useVariables();
}

I hope this all makes sense, please let me know if you can help.

Thanks
Mungo

[Tolls]

Olus points for usig code tags, but minus points because you have no indentation at all...rendering code tags a pointless exercise.

Anyway, the attributes declared in your child class hide the attributes in the parent.
They are different attributes.
Your ParentInnerClass sees the attributes of Parent, not Child.

Hiding attributes like this is generally Bad Code.

[loki20884]

Is there any way of doing what I'm trying to do then?

[Tolls]

Don't redeclare the attributes?

Besides that, you'll probably want (for safer code) to declare the attributes as private and provide at least a protected setter for each, or possibly a constructor that takes in the values you want to give them.