coverting sub class object to super class object

[Prabhu Venkatachalam]

class Y is a subclass of class X. will this compile?

Class X objX = new Class X();
Class Y y= (Class Y) objX;

Ans: YES.

can anybody explain me why?

thanks!
Prabhu

[tim bond]

please read about casting
what you are doing is down casting
the class x object to class y

[tim bond]

class Y is a subclass of class X. will this compile?

Class X objX = new Class X();
Class Y y= (Class Y) objX;

Ans: YES.

can anybody explain me why?


Class X objX = new Class X();
objx is an object of class x



class x is the superclass of class y



Class Y y= (Class Y) objX;

here you are creating a reference y (not an object)
and objx is being assigned to this reference y.
and the objx is being downcasted using (Class y).

thats why it is getting compiled.

[Purujit Saha]

This will not give any compile time error as you are explicitly type casting it.
So, the compiler will assume that whatever you are doing in explicit type casting is know to & you are responsible for that.so it will over look the error. But in run time it will give error.