I want to extend some class that has multiple constructors with different arguments. however i don't intend to do anything with the arguments in my code.
Is there a way to extend a constructer in such a way
public class(<any arguments>)
{
super(<any arguments>);
mycode();
}
void mycode()
......
without spezifieing what <any arguments> is.
> For all practical purposes statusquo is right.
>
> From a theorietical point of you, you could write a
> constructor that takes an array of objects (as Java
> does not have variable parameters), then use
> reflection to invoke the appropriate constructor.
this won't work because super is supposed to be the first call in a constructor, if there is one, and one is required.
>It just gets very boring if i add an additional constuctor to the
>extended classand then have to go through all the extending classes
How many constructors do you have? Probably more than 5 suggests something is wrong with the design of the class.
If you are doing is simply to provide default arguments then I would suggest defining a primitive class that contains nothing but public attributes and a single default ctor. The ctor defines the standard definitions. A caller redefines the attributes they want to. Your main classes have a single ctor which takes the primitive as the only argument.
