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This question is from the abhilash free mock exam :

Question 6.
An Interface can never be private or protected.

Answers

True
False


The response is False, but that is not what I was thinking. I thought that interface can be either public or default (but never private or protected).
Is this an error ?
 
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Interfaces can be public or default. You are correct
 
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The answer depends on the kind of interface: A top level interface can only be public or default. But an inner interface can have any access modifier.

It's the same as with a class: A top level class can only be public or default, but an inner class can have any access modifier.
 
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Thanks guys,

The problem is that the question was too ambiguious, because it was not precised wether it's an inner or top level interface.

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Even i am not to create inner Interface as private or protected also.. i am try to do like following as per Ralph Jaus ,

is it valid.

public interface OuterInterface {

private interface InnterInterface{

}

}
i am getting compile Time error.
 
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Hi kaushik,

generally: within an interface everything is (implicit) coderanch. Therefore you can't use the modifiers private and protected in your sample.

The following works:
[ July 21, 2008: Message edited by: Ralph Jaus ]
 
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kaushik ,You can not declare the member of the interface as private or prtected or default if you does not provide any access modifier that does not mean it is default, the members of the interface are always coderanch.am I correct Ranchers.
 
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Oh Ya, it`s working as you both explain. did you give me any link where i can get detail information about this concept and practically where it`s useful to hide visibility of the methods and system Design
 
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Access modifiers are treated in K&B chapter 1 and any java tutorial book.

Practically: Think of a helper method of a public method. If the helper method would be coderanch,too, everyone could use it (if you like or not). If you then want to change the parameter list of your helper method, for example, other classes may be affected. But if your helper method is private, nobody else can use it and you don't have to care about any other classes. So your system has less changes and becomes more stable.
 
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Can someone post the code where an interface can be declared private or protected? I wasn't able to create one... getting compile error!
That would just help me understand better!... Thanks in advance
[ July 21, 2008: Message edited by: Milan Sutaria ]
 
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A few post above you'll find a code sample.
 
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Are inner interfaces an objective of the exam?
By the way, here is an example of private, protected, default and public interfaces:


[ July 22, 2008: Message edited by: Raphael Rabadan ]
 
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is it correct?

private and protected modifiers can be used for inner interfaces only and

public and default can be used for top level interfaces.

or else correct me.
 
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Yes Ganesh you are right....
 
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