如何强制派生类调用 super 方法? (像 Android 那样)

我想知道,当创建新的 Activity类,然后覆盖 onCreate()方法时,在 eclipse 中我总是得到自动添加: super.onCreate()。怎么会这样?在抽象类或父类中是否有一个 java 关键字强制执行此操作?

我不知道不调用超类是否违法,但是我记得在一些方法中,我因为没有这样做而引发了一个异常。这也是 Java 内置的吗?你能用一些关键词吗?或者是怎么做到的?

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There is nothing in Java that forces calling of super, and there are plenty of examples when you wouldn't want to. The only place where you can force calling of super is in constructors. All constructors have to call a superclass constructor. One (the no arguments constructor) will be inserted if you don't write one explicitly, and if there is no no-arguments constructor then you must call it explicitly.

Eclipse is just being helpful, reminding you that you can call the superclass implementation if you want.

you are probably getting an error because you are not doing something necessary that the superclass does, since you are not calling its implementation.

If you want to make absolutely sure that the superclass-method is called as well, you must trick a bit: Don't allow the superclass-method to be overwritten, but have it call an overridable protected method.

class Super
{
public final void foo() {
foo_stuff();
impl_stuff();
}


protected void impl_stuff() {
some_stuff_that_you_can_override();
}
}


class Base extends Super
{
protected void impl_stuff() {
my_own_idea_of_impl();
}
}

That way, the user must call Super.foo() or Base.foo() and it will always be the base-class version as it was declared as final. The implementation-specific stuff is in impl_stuff(), which can be overriden.

If you want to force subclasses to execute the parent class' logic, a common pattern is something like the following:

public abstract class SuperClass implements SomeInterface
{
// This is the implementation of the interface method
// Note it's final so it can't be overridden
public final Object onCreate()
{
// Hence any logic right here always gets run
// INSERT LOGIC


return doOnCreate();


// If you wanted you could instead create a reference to the
// object returned from the subclass, and then do some
// post-processing logic here
}


protected abstract Object doOnCreate();
}


public class Concrete extends SuperClass
{
@Override
protected Object doOnCreate()
{
// Here's where the concrete class gets to actually do
// its onCreate() logic, but it can't stop the parent
// class' bit from running first


return "Hi";
}
}

This doesn't actually answer your question about what prompts Eclipse to automatically insert a superclass call into the implementation; but then I don't think that's the way to go anyway as this can always be deleted.

You can't actually enforce that a method must call the superclass' version with a Java keyword, or anything like that. I suspect that your exceptions simply came from some code in the parent class checking expected invariants, or something, that were invalidated by your approach. Note that this is subtly different from throwing an exception because you failed to call super.onCreate().

Here's the source of Activity#onCreate() - it is almost all comments (original - see line ~800):

/**
* Called when the activity is starting.  This is where most initialization
* should go: calling {@link #setContentView(int)} to inflate the
* activity's UI, using {@link #findViewById} to programmatically interact
* with widgets in the UI, calling
* {@link #managedQuery(android.net.Uri , String[], String, String[], String)} to retrieve
* cursors for data being displayed, etc.
*
* <p>You can call {@link #finish} from within this function, in
* which case onDestroy() will be immediately called without any of the rest
* of the activity lifecycle ({@link #onStart}, {@link #onResume},
* {@link #onPause}, etc) executing.
*
* <p><em>Derived classes must call through to the super class's
* implementation of this method.  If they do not, an exception will be
* thrown.</em></p>
*
* @param savedInstanceState If the activity is being re-initialized after
*     previously being shut down then this Bundle contains the data it most
*     recently supplied in {@link #onSaveInstanceState}.  <b><i>Note: Otherwise it is null.</i></b>
*
* @see #onStart
* @see #onSaveInstanceState
* @see #onRestoreInstanceState
* @see #onPostCreate
*/
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
mVisibleFromClient = !mWindow.getWindowStyle().getBoolean(
com.android.internal.R.styleable.Window_windowNoDisplay, false);
mCalled = true;
}

so, my guess would be that the ADT Eclipse plugin is what's auto-adding that call to super.onCreate() for you. It's a total guess, though.

Eclipse just helps you doing things right and avoid exceptions.

From http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onCreate(android.os.Bundle)

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

To answer your actual question, the auto-creation of the call to super.onCreate() is a feature of the ADT plugin. In java, you cannot directly force a subclass to call the super implementation of a method, afaik (see the pattern described in other answers for work-around). However, keep in mind that in Android, you are not instantiating Activity objects (or Service objects) directly - you pass an Intent to the system and the system instantiates the object and calls onCreate() upon it (along with other lifecycle methods). So the system has a direct object reference to the Activity instance and is able to check (presumably) some Boolean that is set to true in the superclass implementation of onCreate(). Although I don't know exactly how it is implemented, it probably looks something like this:

class Activity
{
onCreate()
{
superCalled = true;
...
}
...
}

And in the "system" level class that receives the Intent and instantiates the Activity object from it:

...
SomeActivitySubclass someActivitySubclassObject = new SomeActivitySubclass();
someActivitySubclassObject.onCreate();
if (!someActivityObject.isSuperCalled())
{
Exception e = new Exception(...) //create an exception with appropriate details
throw e;
}

My guess is it's probably slightly more complex than that, but you get the idea. Eclipse automatically creates the call because the ADT plugin tells it to, as a convenience. Happy coding!

This is added in the support annotation library:

dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:22.2.0'
}

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/support-annotations

@CallSuper