Question

I am trying to use a member variable called value in a subclass.

My super class is called SType and my subclass is called SResource.

I have a variable in the super class SType called value

I want this to be inherited by the subclass, how do I do this. The class looks like this

public class SType {

    private String value;

    public String getValue(){
        return this.value;
    }
    public void setValue(String value){
        this.value = value;
    }
}

NOTE: I edited the question to make it more clear (given the comment below). Thanks it was a simple solution, just had to make the variable protected rather than `private

Answer 1

In order to access a superclass variable in a subclass, it has to be declared public or protected in the super class.
Maybe yours is private?

When you had private String value in the child class – this is a completely new variable – it’s not the one from the parent class i.e. you have two distinct private variables (I am assuming the superclass one is private).