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Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection)

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Robert Klemme wrote:

> If I understand your issue correctly: this is not about security but
> about design principles.  Dependency always goes up the inheritance
> chain - not downwards.  Meaning, all subclasses have knowledge about
> their superclasses but not vice versa.

Agreed, though I think "always" is a little strong.  It is possible to have 
clusters of co-designed classes where the superclass "knows about" it's 
subclasses.  For instance the superclass could act as a factory for instances 
of its sublclasses, where the subclasses (what they are and how many of them 
there are, etc) is hidden from the consumer code.

(In such cases I'd often like to be able to declare the superclass as "final 
except that it can have subclasses in the same package")

    -- chris

Thread

Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-15 00:58 +0000
  Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 15:20 -0700
    Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2014-08-16 00:11 +0100
      Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-16 00:10 +0000
  Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-15 23:26 -0400
    Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-16 08:46 +0000
      Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-08-16 12:27 +0200
        Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-16 13:37 +0100
          Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-16 09:47 -0400
          Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-08-17 13:19 +0200
        Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-16 22:37 +0000
          Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-16 20:22 -0400
            Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-08-17 12:51 +0200
              Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-17 07:54 -0400
                Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-17 13:44 +0100
                Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-17 17:42 +0000
                Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-18 20:45 -0400
                Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-20 18:47 +0000
                Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-08-18 17:19 +0200
            Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-17 18:04 +0000
              Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-17 15:24 -0400
                Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-17 21:35 +0000
      Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-08-16 12:31 +0200
      Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-16 10:51 -0400
      Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-16 11:00 -0400

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