Type Casting to a Class
I'm getting an instance of a class through the newInstance() method.I want to access that class members through this newly created object.But to do this, I have to typecast the object by its class name.In my case, the class is a dynamic one(i.e., unknown at the time of creating that object).I get the class name as a string through the getName() method.
HOW CAN I DO THE TYPE CASTING OR IS THERE ANY OTHER METHOD TO SOLVE THIS TYPE OF PROBLEM.
Example :
In this example, i have created an object t2 in the same class.but,in actual case, that object is created in some other program called test2. And test2 doesnt know abt the class(test1) being used.And is being determined at runtime (i.e., dynamical).
class test1
int i = 10;
String s;
public static void main(String a[]) throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException
test1 t = new test1();
System.out.println("I = " + t.i);
System.out.println("Class Name = " + t.getClass().getName());
t.s = t.getClass().getName();
Object t2 = t.getClass().newInstance();
System.out.println("t2 I = " + ((test1)t2).i);
System.out.println("t2 Class Name = " + t2.getClass().getName());
If you have no idea what members the class could have in compile time, then how can you set them in runtime?
I think you should give another though to your OO design...
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Interfaces casts are type-checked differently to class casts?
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this is a multipost of
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=677488&tstart=0
as i'm hoping some compiler guys are hanging around in here :)
I'm just wondering why interfaces are type-checked differently to class casts when casting between siblings in the inheritance hierarchy.
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interface IString {
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interface IInteger {
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Dynamic [Runtime] type casting in Java
Hello,
This is my requirement.
I have a method that takes class name as a parameter.
Ex:
Object myMethod(String classname){
Object xyz = getObject(); //userdefine method which returns some object
/*<b>I need to typecast above object with the class name passed as the method parameter</b>*/
/*<b>How can i type cast this object</b>*/
Object obj = (classname) xyz;
return obj;
In the above example, how can i dynamically typecast the object with class whose name is passed as the method parameter?Hello,
This is my requirement.
I have a method that takes class name as a parameter.
Ex:
Object myMethod(String classname){
Object xyz = getObject(); //userdefine method which
returns some object
/*<b>I need to typecast above object with the class
name passed as the method parameter</b>*/
/*<b>How can i type cast this object</b>*/
Object obj = (classname) xyz;
return obj;
In the above example, how can i dynamically typecast
the object with class whose name is passed as the
method parameter?Perhaps a little more background on the project (what you are trying to do) will help the experts here answer?
/*with a class that takes a noarg constructor*/
public Object getObject(String classname) throws Exception
//might want to get a bit more specific with which exceptions it will throw
return Class.forName(classname).newInstance();
}Do I think this sometimes is indicative (perhaps even more often than not), of a possible design flaw? Yes..
It gets a little trickier if you have constructors (you have to create a Class object representing the string with the .forName(..) ..and then use some reflection to determine constructors and then a bit of logic to determine which of those to use...)
~Dave -
Can we dynamically type-cast an object reference passed to Object Clss to that specific class?
Here is what I want to do.
I am going to pass an object reference to a method, which has Object class as parameter to it, as shown below. Using getClass() or some other way, I want to dynamically typecast this reference to the original Class and call some method of this Class.
void test (Object ref1){
((ref1.getClass())ref1).writeLog();
By doing this, am I violating the basic Object Orineted rules?I mean, consider an hypothetical case (which is wrong
from OO point of view) that there are suppose 10
classes in my system. None of them related to each
other, all are independent classes. But each one has a
method called, writeLog(). Now I want to write one
method which will be called by each of these classes
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parameter. Now using the actual reference I want to
call the corresponding writeLog() method.
1 - Point out to management that the design is now officially broken.
2 - Point out that if the design is not fixed then any solution that impliments the changes will cost more to maintain in the future and will likely lead to instabilities in the system (due to complexity.)
3 - Implement one of the suggested solutions and make sure that you put in a lot of error checking and logging in the hacked solution.
4 - Produce extensive documentation about the impact of changing any of the objects that you are relying on. Push it to anyone and everyone that might ever touch or even suggest changes to the code.
Doing all of the above allows you to live stress free when the next revision breaks because someone didn't understand the implications of your hacked solution. You will be able to find the problem quickly and point out that it had nothing to do with your code but rather because someone else did not follow the complete documentation that you produced. And then when they complain that your solution was a hack you can point out that you explained that previously as well. -
Hi Guys,
I am pretty new at generics and have started reading all material available online. Shown below is the API that I am using
package api;
public interface CS<C extends MyConfig> extends S {
package api;
public interface MyConfig {
package api;
public interface MySession {
public <C extends MyConfig, T extends ResourceContainer<? extends C>>
T createContainer(CS<C> aPredefinedConfig);
package api;
public interface NC extends ResourceContainer<NCC> {
package api;
public interface NCC extends MyConfig {
package api;
import java.io.Serializable;
public interface ResourceContainer <T extends MyConfig> extends Serializable {
package api;
public interface S {
public abstract boolean equals(Object other);
public abstract int hashCode();
public abstract String toString();
}And below is my implementation
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import api.NC;
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package impl;
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import api.MyConfig;
import api.MySession;
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CS<C> predefinedConfig) {
NCImpl ncimpl = new NCImpl();
return ncimpl; //Error Type mismatch: cannot convert from NCImpl to T
}As shown above I get error at line 'return ncimpl' But NCImpl implements the NC which extends ResourceContainer<NCC> so shouldn't it be capable of Type casting to T or I am missing something.
Thanks a lot for your response in advancecontinuation of stack trace .................
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure
/home/abhayani/workarea/eclipse/workspace/workspace-2.x/GenericsTest/impl/src/main/java/impl/MySessionImpl.java:[16,13] inconvertible types
found : impl.NCImpl
required: T
/home/abhayani/workarea/eclipse/workspace/workspace-2.x/GenericsTest/impl/src/main/java/impl/MySessionImpl.java:[16,13] inconvertible types
found : impl.NCImpl
required: T
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.BuildFailureException: Compilation failure
/home/abhayani/workarea/eclipse/workspace/workspace-2.x/GenericsTest/impl/src/main/java/impl/MySessionImpl.java:[16,13] inconvertible types
found : impl.NCImpl
required: T
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at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:499)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:478)
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at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilationFailureException: Compilation failure
/home/abhayani/workarea/eclipse/workspace/workspace-2.x/GenericsTest/impl/src/main/java/impl/MySessionImpl.java:[16,13] inconvertible types
found : impl.NCImpl
required: T
at org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractCompilerMojo.execute(AbstractCompilerMojo.java:516)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilerMojo.execute(CompilerMojo.java:114)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:451)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558)
... 16 more
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 5 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Feb 12 10:39:43 IST 2009
[INFO] Final Memory: 14M/81M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[abhayani@localhost GenericsTest]$ -
Why we use type casting ' ?='
Hii Team
sample code for fetching the input value from search view which is connected to btq1order contextnode
DATA : lr_qs TYPE REF TO cl_crm_bol_dquery_service,
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lr_qr = lr_qs->get_query_result( ).
I am new to SAP CRM .while understanding the code i got stuck in one problem that ,
1.what is the main purpose behind
TYPE CASTING ie; '?='
2.what happens if we write ?= becoz if we write '=' instead of '?=' the system thows an error.
3.when to use this operator ?= and when we cannot use ?
It is used almost every where in BOL coding .please help me by giving complete explaination with an example if possible.
Thanks in AdvanceHi Abhishek,
Please check returning parameter type for get_current_dquery() method. In case returning type is mutually convertible then you don't have to use type casting.
But in case where you are taking results in some other type where results are compatible but with different structure then you use type casting.
best example would be cl_crm_bol_entity and if_bol_bo_property_access. Here property access is an interface to class and hence we use type casting.
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type casting
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BJ -
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There is one question bothering me very very much.
When should I use type casting?
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How do I know which 'cast type' to use? Is there a suitable pattern
we need to follow so that we can know 'Ah this is the cast
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RegardsYou can Cast an object from any subclass to its superclass,
or from a superclass to the sublass, if the object is already
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I have a class named Name:
public class Name {
I have a subclass named LastName:
public class LastName extends Name { [/b]
And another named FirstName:
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I create an object like this:
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So if I need to use things specific to LastName I have to cast
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method can work on all Names, so I don't know if the Name is
a LastName or not. The object itself DOES know, however, and
we can test, so we would cast to a subclass as follows:
if (n instanceof LastName) {
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Since the object is bound in the context, I assume that you have made the class available to your server, and you have the class in WEB-INF/classes or in a jar inside WEB-INF/lib.
Since they're being loaded by two different classloaders, the classes are seen as different by the JVM, thus the ClassCastException.
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How to use Type Casting in JSF Expression Language
I have an attribute CategoryId in my VO of type oracle.jbo.domain.Number. I am trying to use the expression of Boolean item in JSF as #{row.CategoryId != 4}
Here is the JSF code:
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<f:facet name="header">
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Thanks, Pradeepuse attributeValue
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Hello
I was trying to do a JAX-RPC application, and I had some problems with type casting. My application worked fine with primitive types, vectors of primitive types, and beans with primitive type properties. But it didn't work with vectors of beans, or ArrayList's of beans... It couldn't deserialize the result on client side... Can anyone help?
The Java Web Services Tutorial says that JAX-RPC supports beans and vectors, but I had the impression that this is not a "recursive" support, like "beans with vectors" or "vectors of beans"... Does it make sense?
By the way, I was using a DII client...
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Alexandre MurakamiHello!
Thanks for the reply! I can't put the code of my application here (because it's quite big and it's from work)... But I followed the dii client example from the Web Services Tutorial...
I'm trying to do a kind of a general client... The parameters are the URL of the service, the name of the operation, a list of parameters and the return type class.. And it takes the rest of the service information from the WSDL file... About the return type, I take the QName of the return type from the WSDL:
<message>
<part name="result" type="...">...
then I call the call.setReturnType(QName, Class) method. The return type was an array of a very simple bean, something like:
class Person {
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I don't know if the information I put here is enough... but anyway, thanks for the reply!
Alexandre Murakami -
Hi,
Can we do explicit type casting vigorously in a java class? Im in a situation that i've to do explicit casting 40 to 50 times in a class. Is there any overhead for JVM or any performance issue with this?Why do you cast so often? It's sounds like a weird design. Casting is pretty cheap.
Kaj -
Hi Team,
Could any one explain me about Type casting used in oops abap and in what circumstances it is
used with an example.
Regards,
Pradeep P.Hi,
Hi,
Go to ABAPDOCU tcode and see example programs in abap objects section, you will find separate programs for upcasting and downcasting .
Up-Cast (Widening Cast)
Variables of the type reference to superclass can also refer to subclass instances at runtime.
If you assign a subclass reference to a superclass reference, this ensures that
all components that can be accessed syntactically after the cast assignment are
actually available in the instance. The subclass always contains at least the same
components as the superclass. After all, the name and the signature of redefined
methods are identical.
The user can therefore address the subclass instance in the same way as the
superclass instance. However, he/she is restricted to using only the inherited
components.
In this example, after the assignment, the methods GET_MAKE, GET_COUNT,
DISPLAY_ATTRIBUTES, SET_ATTRIBUTES and ESTIMATE_FUEL of the
instance LCL_TRUCK can only be accessed using the reference R_VEHICLE.
If there are any restrictions regarding visibility, they are left unchanged. It is not
possible to access the specific components from the class LCL_TRUCK of the
instance (GET_CARGO in the above example) using the reference R_VEHICLE.
The view is thus usually narrowed (or at least unchanged). That is why we
describe this type of assignment of reference variables as up-cast. There is a
switch from a view of several components to a view of a few components. As
the target variable can accept more dynamic types in comparison to the source
variable, this assignment is also called Widening Cast
Static and Dynamic Types of References
A reference variable always has two types at runtime: static and dynamic.
In the example, LCL_VEHICLE is the static type of the variable R_VEHICLE.
Depending on the cast assignment, the dynamic type is either LCL_BUS or
LCL_TRUCK. In the ABAP Debugger, the dynamic type is specified in the form
of the following object display.
Down-cast (Narrowing Cast)
Variables of the type reference to superclass can also refer to subclass instances
at runtime. You may now want to copy such a reference (back) to a suitable
variable of the type reference to subclass.
If you want to assign a superclass reference to a subclass reference, you must
use the down-cast assignment operator MOVE ... ?TO ... or its short form
?=. Otherwise, you would get a message stating that it is not certain that all
components that can be accessed syntactically after the cast assignment are
actually available in the instance. As a rule, the subclass class contains more
components than the superclass.
After assigning this type of reference (back) to a subclass reference to the
implementing class, clients are no longer limited to inherited components: In the
example given here, all components of the LCL_TRUCK instance can be accessed
(again) after the assignment using the reference R_TRUCK2.
The view is thus usually widened (or at least unchanged). That is why we describe
this type of assignment of reference variables as down-cast. There is a switch
from a view of a few components to a view of more components. As the target
variable can accept less dynamic types after the assignment, this assignment is
also called Narrowing Cast
Reward if helpfull,
Naresh.
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