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jayendra bhatt
jayendra bhatt

Reputation: 1385

Is this the case of method hiding?

i have following code in which the base class Employee have a static method meth1() which i am able to call from a child class (Pro) object . Is it a case of method hiding or what ? , i am not sure because i haven't implemented the meth1() method in Pro class, but still able to call Emplyee static method from Pro object.

class Employee
{  

  String s;

    public String getS() {
        return s;
    }

    public void setS(String s) {
        this.s = s;
    }
    protected static void meth1()
    {
        System.out.println("inside emp-meth1");
    }

}
public class Pro extends Employee {
/*
 *  public void meth1()
    {
        System.out.println("inside encapsulation-meth1");
    }
    */
    public static void main(String as[])
    {
        Pro e = new Pro();
    //  e.s ="jay";
        e.meth1();

    }

}

Output:

inside emp-meth1

Thanks

Jayendra

Upvotes: 0

Views: 64

Answers (1)

user153
user153

Reputation: 146

What are you trying to hide? Try the below code

emp.meth1() will call method based on reference not based on the object being referred.

class Employee
{  

  String s;

public String getS() {
    return s;
}

public void setS(String s) {
    this.s = s;
}
protected static void meth1()
{
    System.out.println("inside emp-meth1");
   }

}
public class Pro extends Employee {
  protected static void meth1()
  {
    System.out.println("inside encapsulation-meth1");
  }

public static void main(String as[])
{
    Pro e = new Pro();
    Employee emp = new Pro();
    emp.meth1();       //this is case of method hiding 
    e.meth1();

}

}

Upvotes: 1

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