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Polymorphism data type testing

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If I have a collection of polymorphic objects, is there a way to test exactly what data type an element of that collection is?

I’ve though of two workarounds:

1. Type casting and testing thought exception handling.
2. Adding a String to the root class that represents the data type.

But if there is a conventional way of testing this, I would rather use that.

I’ve tried doing a Google search on polymorphism data type testing, but it didn’t turn up anything.
May 7 '07 #1
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If I have a collection of polymorphic objects, is there a way to test exactly what data type an element of that collection is?

I’ve though of two workarounds:

1. Type casting and testing thought exception handling.
2. Adding a String to the root class that represents the data type.

But if there is a conventional way of testing this, I would rather use that.

I’ve tried doing a Google search on polymorphism data type testing, but it didn’t turn up anything.
One of
instanceOf operator
getClass method

should be able to help you.
May 7 '07 #2

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