Question

May be it could be silly,but I want to clear my the technical understanding of this code:

import netscape.*;//ldap jar
public class A {

    public void method() {
        ...

        try {
            //code is written here.
             LDAPSearchResults lsr = ldi.search(LDAPConnectionInfo.MY_SEARCHBASE,LDAPConnectionInfo.MY_SCOPE,LDAPConnectionInfo.MY_FILTER,null,false);
             while(lsr.hasMoreElements()){
             LDAPEntry findEntry = (LDAPEntry)lsr.nextElement();

        } catch(...) { 
        } 
    } 
}

Now I call another class

public class B {
    A a = new A();
    //here I want to use attributeName 
}

• How could I access A class’s member(in try block) in B class.
• Any way to handle try block code for reuse in another class.
• How could I handle all those exception in another class.

Any modification should I need…

Calling method of Object type.

public class C{
private String attributeName;

   public String getAttributeName() {
       return attributeName;
   }

public Object method(){
attributeName=lAttribute.getName(); 
}
}

• How could print this Object type method into String(in a jsp page)… any inputs

Answer 1

You’ll need a member in class A and a getter:

public class A {
   private String attributeName;

   public String getAttributeName() {
       return attributeName;
   }

   public void method(){
        ...

        try {
            //code is written here.
            attributeName = lAttribute.getName(); 
        }
        catch() { 
        } 
   } 
}

Then:

public class B {
    A a = new A();

    // somewhere
    String str = a.getAttributeName();
}

There’s no way to access a method’s private variables like you did in the original example, as they only exist on the stack during the method call.

Edit: I noticed another question:

How could I handle all those exception in another class.

I assume you want to call your method somewhere else and catch the exceptions there. In that case you can use the throws keyword to communicate that your method will pass exceptions to the caller:

public class A {

    public void method() throws IOException {

        //code is written here.
        String attributeName = lAttribute.getName(); 
    } 

    public void anotherMethod() {
        try {
            method();
        } catch(IOException ex) {
            ...
        } 
    }
}

then if some other piece of code calls method it will be forced to either handle or further propagate the exception.