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Reputation:

Extend Java abstract class in Scala

Given a Java class, something like

public abstract class A {
    public A(URI u) {
    }
}

I can extend it in Scala like this

class B(u: URI) extends A(u) { }

However, what I would like to do is alter the constructor of B, something like

case class Settings()

class B(settings: Settings) extends A {
  // Handle settings
  // Call A's constructor
}

What's the correct syntax for doing this in Scala?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 458

Answers (3)

Tomer Shetah
Tomer Shetah

Reputation: 8539

You can achieve that in a very similar way to Object inside class with early initializer.

Assuming there is an abstract class A as declared above, you can do:

case class Settings(u: URI)

class B(s: Settings) extends {
  val uri = s.u
} with A(uri)

Then call:

val b = new B(Settings(new URI("aaa")))
println(b.uri)

Upvotes: 2

Matthias Berndt
Matthias Berndt

Reputation: 4587

Blocks are expressions in Scala, so you can run code before calling the superclass constructor. Here's a (silly) example:

class Foo(a: Int)
class Bar(s: String) extends Foo({
  println(s)
  s.toInt
})

Upvotes: 4

Yaroslav Fyodorov
Yaroslav Fyodorov

Reputation: 739

In Java "Invocation of a superclass constructor must be the first line in the subclass constructor." so, you can't really handle settings before calling A's c'tor. Even if it doesn't look like this all the initialization inside of class definition are actually constructors code. That's why there is no syntax for calling super's c'tor

Upvotes: 1

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