Need to Call the Parent Class Method

Question

Hi..
Please go thru the following code.
class Parent {
     Parent() {
          System.out.println("In Parent Constructor");
     void set() {
          System.out.println("In Parent set method");
class Child extends Parent {
     Child() {
          System.out.println("In Child Constructor");
     void set() {
          super.set();
          System.out.println("In Child set method");
class SetTrial {
     public static void main(String args[])
          Child aChild = new Child();
          Parent theImpl = (Parent)aChild;
          theImpl.set();
I want to know, is there any way by which we can get the Parent Set method to be executed, when we invoke it in main.
In the main, I should be able to decide which Set to invoke based on certain conditions.
TIA..
Basu.

Answer 1

Since you seem to have an aversion to using the child class decide whether to call just the parent's set function, I think I would do it like this:
class Parent{
  Parent() {
     System.out.println("In Parent Constructor\n");
  void set(ConditionClass C) {
    System.out.println ("In Parent set method\n");
class Child extends Parent {
  Child() {
    System.out.println("In Child Constructor");
  void set(ConditionClass C) {
    super.set();
    if (C.CallChildSet()) {
      System.out.println("In Child set method");
class SetTrial {
     public static void main(String args[])
          Child aChild = new Child();
          Parent theImpl = (Parent)aChild;
                ConditionClass C = new ConditionClass()
          theImpl.set(C);
}In any case I would decide in the child's set to call the parent's set or not.