Java子类调用超类

Question

I'm having a little trouble with inheritance. What i have done is made a superclass as some of the attributes in the subclasses were identical.

I am trying to reference the superclass, I tried putting super(name); above the line name = replacementName; it will not compile saying name has private access in the Superclass 'person'. I know that it won't access a private field but how can I get the name from the superclass in a subclass method?

Here is the method.

public void changeName(String replacementName){
    name = replacementName;
}

Help appreciated.

Answer 1

You have several options :

1 - In your super class, use private declaration for the name attribute and add public (or protected) getters/setters. Then you can modify your super class field from your child class using the setter method.

2 - In your super class, use protected declaration for your name field. Then you can access it directly from your child class.

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