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user4768611
user4768611

Reputation:

when should make private member to static,and how is this being override in my case

Since private methods are implicitly final.

private or static or final methods are early bind means they can't be overridden.

But in my code it is actually running properly.

public class B extends A {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new B().privateMethod(); //no error -output B-privateMethod.
    }

    private void privateMethod() {
        System.out.println("B-privateMethod.");
    }
}

class A{
    private void privateMethod() {
        System.out.println("A-privateMethod.");
    }

    private static void privateStaticMethod() {
        System.out.println("privateStaticMethod.");
    }
}

Also I want to make sure what the benefit is of making a private member static, besides the fact that you can use class-name.member, over a non-static member within a class. They are private so can't be used outside the class. For example the hugeCapacity() method in the ArrayList class.

private static final int DEFAULT_CAPACITY = 10;

private static int hugeCapacity(int minCapacity) {
    if (minCapacity < 0) // overflow
        throw new OutOfMemoryError();
    return (minCapacity > MAX_ARRAY_SIZE) ?
        Integer.MAX_VALUE :
        MAX_ARRAY_SIZE;
}

Upvotes: 9

Views: 194

Answers (3)

SSC
SSC

Reputation: 3008

Since private methods are implicitly final and private, static and final methods are early binding means they can't be overridden. But in my code it is actually running properly.

private methods are not implicitly private, they are explicitly private. static and final methods are early bindings and they can really not be over-ridden. In your case, you might think that they are overridden but actually, they are not. For example, how to know if a method is overridden? Overridden methods allow you to call the super method, using super().functionName() But, in your case, if you will try to do, it will give you a compile time error, which clearly means, that your methods are not overridden. You are just using the same signature but actually they are never overridden.

Also I want to make sure what the benefit is of making a private member static

You probably know that a static member is not part of the object but class. Plus, if you have static methods in your class and they need access to a member which is not static, how would you do that? You will have to create an object of the class and use it, right? But, if it's private and static, you can use them in the static functions or blocks of your class.

Hope, it clears things.

Upvotes: 2

Jaap Coomans
Jaap Coomans

Reputation: 1465

While I understand this may look like privateMethod() in B overrides privateMethod() in A, it actually doesn't. Because the visibility of a private method is restricted to the owning class only, you actually created two separate methods that happen to have the same name and signature.

When the method would be overwritten, you would be able to do this:

public class B extends A{
    /* ...snip... */

    private void privateMethod() {
        super.privateMethod();
        System.out.println("B-privateMethod.");
    }
}

This will however not compile, because of the aforementioned restricted visibility. When the methods would not have been private, this would have worked and would have printed:

A-privateMethod.
B-privateMethod.

Upvotes: 6

Rahul Thachilath
Rahul Thachilath

Reputation: 363

Your code has no overriding in it. it is just two class have individual method with same name without having any kind of relationship as both do not know the existence of another.

static method are used so that for calling them we do not have to create an object of the class it resides. i will make a static method if i only want the class itself and sub classes to use it.

Upvotes: 1

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