Question

Imagine I have this:

public class Animal {
    private String racaAnimal;
    private String corAnimal;

    public String getCorAnimal() {
        return this.corAnimal;
    }

    public String getRacaAnimal() {
        return this.racaAnimal;
    } 

            public Animal getAnimaisCliente(int indice) {
                    return this.animaisCliente[indice];
            }  
}

public class Estimacao extends Animal{
    private String nomeAnimal;

    public String getNomeAnimal() {
        return nomeAnimal;
    }
}

public class Cliente{
    private Animal[] animaisCliente;
}

Constructors aren’t showing but they are working fine.

I have one arraylist that holds all Cliente

ArrayList<Cliente> clientes = new ArrayList<Cliente>();

And a animal is created like this

Estimacao animaisEstimacao = new Estimacao(nomeAnimal,racaAnimal,corAnimal);

and then its added to the array of Animal in Cliente

Now if I do this:

System.out.println(" Raça: " + clientes.get(0).getAnimaisCliente(0).getRacaAnimal());

It works.
But how can i get nomeAnimal from class Estimacao?

If i put

System.out.println(" Nome: " + clientes.get(0).getAnimaisCliente(0).getNomeAnimal());

it do not works.

From a subclass we can get things from the super class but the other way arroud? is it possible?

Answer 1

Try

System.out.println(" Nome: " + ((Estimacao) clientes.get(0).getAnimaisCliente(0)).getNomeAnimal());