Regarding upcasting and downcasting in java im trying to come

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Regarding upcasting and downcasting in java im trying to come

up with some examples & causes of different kinds of errors regarding casting and polymorphism

given B extends A

((B) new A())
will cause a runtime error, right?

and say C doesn't extend anything
(C(new A()))
B ba = new A()
will cause a compile time error

so
are there any more cases like this im not thinking about that would result in compile/runtime errors?

also if u can provide an intuition behind those that'd be appreciated thanks

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dankey Автор вопроса

isn't there a scenerio in which this'll cause an error?

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dankey
isn't there a scenerio in which this'll cause an e...

If B didn't extend A Java would've thrown a ClassCastException which is a RuntimeException

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If B didn't extend A Java would've thrown a ClassC...

i was sure im missing something. sure there aren't any small annoyances regarding casting in between classes with is a relation between them?

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dankey
i was sure im missing something. sure there aren'...

I don't think so. Primitives are all numeral types so it's just a matter of widening and narrowing. As for references, classes with parent-(grand)child relations can be casted, you lose fields and methods upcasting but since children can't make inherited fields and methods less visible it just can't go wrong. The only slightly problematic one is downcasting which you can prevent at compile time using instanceof

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I don't think so. Primitives are all numeral types...

umm can you give an example for such problematic downcasting?

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Nader Jafari
If B didn't extend A Java would've thrown a ClassC...

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