inheritance question

[Ken Truitt]

Answer C is incorrect or am I missing something?

source: scjptest.com

    
Given the code. What is the result?
class Small {
    public Small() {
        System.out.print("a ");
    }
}

class Small2 {
    public Small2() {
        System.out.print("b ");
    }
}

class Small3 {
    public Small3() {
        System.out.print("c ");
    }
}

public class Test {     
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        new Small3();
    }
}
A) a
B) c
C) a b c
D) c b a
E) The code runs without output.
Answer: C

[krishna bala]

can you please tell me the relation between classes, i didnot see any relation ?

[Henry Wong]

Answer C is incorrect or am I missing something?

Yes. Answer C is incorrect. But you do know that you can also confirm it by compiling and running the code too.

Henry

[Lucas Smith]

Only one constructor will be invoked - there is no connection between those classes

[Jason Irwin]

Lukas Smith wrote:Only one constructor will be invoked - there is no connection between those classes

You mean two constructors, don't you? But only one from that code listing.

[Lucas Smith]

Yeah Jason, thanks. Object's constructor will run also

[Nitish Bangera]

I guess the question forgot the extends from Small2 and Small3. well current question will invoke 2 constructors and one of them is the super constructor that is Object and the other is Small3.

[Himanshu Kansal]

That was cool. Invisible inheritance and the answer given correct if it is case insensitive "c" ... hehe

[Abhik Ghosh]

See. there are basically 3 things that gets called when a constructor is invoked.They are in this order:

1.super()
2.init blocks
3.other super constructors

So obviously here the first call in each constructor is tha call to super(), and so Constructor of C calls that of B, which calls that of A.So we get a b c .

[S Ali]

Is it me or is there something missing out there ,I don't understand !

[avi sinha]

Abhik Ghosh wrote:S
1.super()
2.init blocks
3.other super constructors

i didn't understand.... what does it mean " other super constructors " . as per i suppose there may be only one superclass for a class as a class can't extend more than one class.

in my opinion the sequence will be :

static blocks -- > super constructor --- > init() blocks ---> constructor

the same rule will be followed by the superclass for ex: if c extends b extends a

then

static blocks --> init of a ---> constructor of a ---> init of b ---> constructor of b ---> init of c ---> constructor of c

in the above question if they are related to each other using inheritance "c" would be correct
ie if small3 extends small2 extends small

avi sinha

[Ankit Garg]

avi sinha wrote:
static blocks -- > super constructor --- > init() blocks ---> constructor
:
static blocks --> init of a ---> constructor of a ---> init of b ---> constructor of b ---> init of c ---> constructor of c

I think you should keep static blocks out of this. They are executed only the first time a class is loaded and not with each instance. The sequence is superclass constructor, then initialization expressions and instance initializer blocks in the order of their declaration, then the constructor body. This is not very difficult to understand so there should be no confusion.

As far as the original question goes, you can say that the question has a bug, and for C to be the right answer, there must be inheritance relationship between Small, Small2 and Small3...

[S Ali]

As far as the original question goes, you can say that the question has a bug, and for C to be the right answer, there must be inheritance relationship between Small, Small2 and Small3...

what bug are you talking about? seriously is there something missing!

[avi sinha]

Ankit Garg wrote:

I think you should keep static blocks out of this. They are executed only the first time a class is loaded and not with each instance.

you are correct ankit. i have written static blocks . i haven't specified any particular object of any class. the reason is the same.

avi sinha

[avi sinha]

S Ali wrote:

what bug are you talking about? seriously is there something missing!

the bug is that no any relationship between the classes is specified here that's why the answer can't be "a b c"
avi sinah

[Fritz Guerilus]

Ken,
Are you saying that scjptest.com is showing that C) 'a b c'; is the correct answer? .
If that is the case, then you should email the creators and let them know.
There is nothing wrong with this code, just like everyone on this thread is saying.
I also complied and executed the program and B) not C) is the correct answer
-Fritz

[Ken Truitt]

You all realize this thread was more than a month old? Anyway, the test that this comes from at scjptest.com is pretty
buggy. Like many of the tests listed in the FAQ, it has a very good interface but the questions need editing. It
*could* be a great resource i they'd debug it and edit some of the wrong questions.

[Abhik Ghosh]

Most definitely the ans is wrong.. it is B) c .. i missed it, thanks Ankit, i need to be more alert.. the classes are missing inheritance. Now when I say "other super constructors", I mean this:

 

class Tag {
  Tag(int marker) {
    System.out.println("Tag(" + marker + ")");
  }
}

class Card {
  Tag t1 = new Tag(1);   //1. Tag(1)
  Tag t2 = new Tag(2);   //2. Tag(2)
  Tag t3 = new Tag(3);   //3. Tag(3) 	
  
  Card() {
	//1. super()
	//2. init blocks
	//3. super constructors  
    System.out.println("Card()");    //4. Card()
    t3 = new Tag(33);   			 //5. Tag(33)
  }

  void f() {
    System.out.println("f()");		 //6. f()
  }

  			 
}

public class Order3 {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Card t = new Card();
    t.f(); 

  }
} 

The sequence of the output is numbered. Hope this make it clearer.

[Salil Vverma]

Hey Ken,
The answer B is correct in that case. For answer C to be correct the code should be like --

   
class Small {
	public Small() {
		System.out.print("a ");
	}
}

class Small2 extends Small {
	public Small2() {
		System.out.print("b ");
	}
}

class Small3 extends Small2 {
	public Small3() {
		System.out.print("c ");
	}
}

public class Test {
	public static void main(String args[]) {
		new Small3();
	}
}

 

Regards
Salil Verma