casting type in methods in java -
what wrong piece of code? consider building arraylist containing buildings , building superclass farm , stonemine:
public building returnbuilding(int i) { if(buildings.get(i) instanceof farm) return (farm)buildings.get(i); if(buildings.get(i) instanceof stonemine) return (stonemine)buildings.get(i); else return null; } then if call
returnbuilding(1).somemethodejustinfarmclass(); which building.get(1) instance of farm class, run time error
returnbuilding returns building, not farm. casting game.buildings.get(i) before returning not change that.
if runtime class of game.buildings.get(i) farm, cast return value of returnbuilding farm before calling somemethodejustinfarmclass method.