On 29/10/2008, at 3:18 AM, Florijan Stamenkovic wrote:
Hi all,
Going a bit off WO topic here, but maybe it will be interesting to
someone...
I've for the first time today found myself wishing to obtain a
reference to the instance of a nesting class, while having a
reference to an instance of it's inner class, but outside of the
scope of the inner class itself... So, if I was in the scope of the
inner class, I would simply do this:
NestingClass.this
and voila. However, since I am in a method in which I have an
arbitrary instance of the inner class, let's call it "ref", I tried
doing this:
NestingClass.ref
That would refer to a static variable called 'ref' on the class
NestingClass.
This is a no-go. Now, as far as I understand the concept of class
nesting as it is implemented in Java, this should work.
For inner classes there are two possible meanings for 'this', which is
why the ClassName.this syntax exists, so that you can access both of
them. Outside the context of an instance method on the inner class you
cannot access the instance of the nesting class directly.
After all, it is simple to make a method in the inner class that
will expose the instance of the nesting class by returning
NestingClass.this.
This is what you will need to do.
So, I don't think this is a deliberate attempt to enforce some
encapsulation concept, but an overlook, or something that was seen
as an unnecessary syntactical complication. From my experience,
either of those is in a way understandable, in some 4 years of
working with Java I have only today for the first time wished to do
this. Peculiar.
I will google this a bit, and depending on what I find might submit
a bug report to Sun. Any thoughts on this are welcome....
--
Seeya...Q
Quinton Dolan - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)
Ph: +61 419 729 806
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