Question

This is a strange question but I was wondering if there was a way to “override” a parent class’s static method in a subclass and call that subclass’s static method from the parent class.

It would look something like this

public class parentFoo {
    public static void <T extends parentFoo> printFoo () {
        T.printFoo();
    }
}

public class childFoo extends parentFoo {
    public static void printFoo() {
        System.out.println("Foo");
    }
}

so you could do something like this in your code

 //print out "Foo"
 parentFoo.<childFoo>printFoo();

This isn’t working for me but I was wondering if there is some way to make this possible. Right now I get a stack overflow because it only calls the parent class’s printFoo method.

Answer 1

There’s no way to to call a static method based on a generic type parameter.

The answer to the question below provides a reasonable workaround.

• Calling a static method using generic type