marcus green mock exam

[sona gold]

could someone explain the program to me (especially static Q1 processor A())
public class Q1 {
static void processorB() {
System.out.println(" is a boolean Operator.");
}

static Q1 processorA(){
Q1 q=null;
if (("java").startsWith("null"))
return q;
else
return null;
}

static {
System.out.print("Java".startsWith(""));
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
processorA().processorB();
}

[sona gold]

sorry this is from jtips mocks and not marcus

[Sujit Kurtadikar]

Dear Sona,
You must have checked output. This program will give output :
true is a boolean Operator
This can be explained as below.
First static initialiser block is executed at time of loading the class, so it prints true.
(b'cos "Java".startsWith("") is true)
Then in main() method, processorA() method of class Q1 is called, which is static method.
The statement ("java").startsWith("null") will be evaluated to false, b'cos here "null" is string
and which is not same as ""
So, else part will be executed and null will be returned.
Point is even if null is returned, how processorB() is executed and NullPointerException is not thrown.
This is because processorB() is static method. For executing static method, the object reference is not requied.
It can be exaplained with simple example,
Q1 q1 = null;
q1.processorB(); // This is correct statement
I think this will make things clear.
Regards,
Sujit

[Ravindra Mohan]

Good explanation Sujit...
You have correctly addressed the querry.

Ravindra Mohan.

[sona gold]

processorA().processorB()
can u explain this i don't understand what this means
and what is it doing

[Madhu SK]

processorA().processorB()
If you take the first part of the above code processorA(), it returns an object of type Q. So, when you say
processorA().processorB(), it means that you are calling processorB() of an object returned by processorA().
I am not very good at explaining..hope this helps!
Madhu