Using an array which is in a superclass

[razorfever]

Ok so I have these two classes: Book and Encyclopedia. I want to create a method in Encyclopedia. I want it to modify an array which is an object in Book class. I'm not allowed to take the array as a method input like this: public void MethodName(Book [] a, String ...){ Instead, I have to find a way to call that array in the method and modify one of the elements in it. I know how to modify the element, just I don't know how to call the array in a superclass to a subclass. Thanks.

[JosAH]

If that array isn't private there is no problem at all, you can do with it whatever you want. If it is private and there is no method in that superclass that hands over that array, you have no way to access that array. I don't understand your last remark.

kind regards,

Jos

[razorfever]

The array is private and I do have getter/setter methods.

[doWhile]

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