Java Question on Inheritance

I don't really know what to call what I'm having trouble with but here is what I am trying to do. I have asuperclass called SuperOne, it has a method to convert a string to a URL formatcalled toURL(). I havean Image class that is a subclass of SuperOne. It holds astringstoringthe local

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Ultimately, I want to get the thumb of this Image and convert it to a URL. I want to be able to do this efficiently and use something like the following syntax. myImage.getThumb().toURL() Is this possible? Yes, but getThumb() must return a subclass of SuperOne. --- Michael Wentzel

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= toURL( myImage.getThumb() ); in your SuperOne or its sub-class. === Gary Grewal -Original Message-From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:38 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Java Question on Inheritance I don't really know what to call

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} -ryan - Original Message - From: "Michael Wentzel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:32 AM Subject: RE: Java Question on Inheritance Ultimately, I want to get the thumb of this Image and convert it to a URL. I want to be able to

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Then this is my next problem. I currently have getThumb() returning an Image object. The part where I am stuck at is what to do in the toURL() method. my mock getThumb() method currently looks something like public Image getThumb(){ this.iValue = "/home/thumbs"; return this; }

Re: Java Question on Inheritance

Ryan wrote: Then this is my next problem. I currently have getThumb() returning an Image object. The part where I am stuck at is what to do in the toURL() method. my mock getThumb() method currently looks something like public Image getThumb(){ this.iValue = "/home/thumbs";