Redefination of Method in Inherited Class

dear Gurrus i am facing an issu.
I have defined and implimented 2 classes A and B,
B is inherited by A and B has also redefined an inherited method of A. at runtime i have created an object of B and called a redifined method. and its working properly, but i have a requirment that i want to get result of the method orginally defined by class A and also at the same time i also want to see the result of redefined method by B.
can i access the method of A class althoug i have redefiend the same method in B class using the object of B?
Edited by: Shadab Ali on Jun 4, 2009 8:55 PM

I spent a while looking into this after reading your question, and came to much the same conclusion you had. Here's the best I could come up with, but it suffers from all the flaws you mentioned:
     public static Type report(Method method, Class contextClass) {
          Type grt = method.getGenericReturnType();
          Class dc = method.getDeclaringClass();
          TypeVariable[] tva = dc.getTypeParameters();
          Class directDescendent = contextClass;
          while( !directDescendent.getSuperclass().equals(dc)) {
               directDescendent = directDescendent.getSuperclass();
          Type t = directDescendent.getGenericSuperclass();
          if( t instanceof ParameterizedType ) {
               ParameterizedType pt = (ParameterizedType)t;
               int index = 0;
               for( Type ta : pt.getActualTypeArguments() ) {
                    if( tva[index++].equals(grt) ) return ta;
          return null;
     }Might be worth asking this again in the Generics forum.

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