First of all, thanks for reading!
I made a class "Sportsman" that is the Superclass of "Footballer". So I made an array of Sportsman-objects that also contains Footballer objects, no problems here (I have a pretty good idea of how inheritance works).
I can set Footballer-specific variables to the objects in the array, but when I want to print the variables I've just declared to the object i can't call get-methods because the array is a Sportsman-array and not a Footballer-array.
So here is my question: How do i print the Footballer specific variables from a Sportsman Superclass array?
Things to know: I can't make a separate array for the subclass objects. They must be mixed! While putting a subclass object in the arrays of superclass objects, I explicitly make it a subclass object. However, I'm not able to use subclass methods on it.
main code:
public class SportApp {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
Sportsman[] sportArr = new Sportsman[10];
for(int count=0 ; count < sportArr.length ; count++)
{ System.out.println("Is the sportsman a footballer?");
String answer = input.nextLine();
System.out.println("Last name?");
String lastName = input.nextLine();
System.out.println("name?");
String name = input.nextLine();
switch (answer){
case "yes": System.out.println("Which club does he play in?");
String club = input.nextLine();
System.out.println("At what position?");
String pos = invoer.nextLine();
sportArr[count]=new Footballer(lastName,name,club,pos);
break;
default: System.out.println("What sport?");
String sport = input.nextLine();
sportArr[count]=new Sportsman(lastName,name,sport);
}
}
System.out.println("All sportsmen that don't play football:");
for(int count=0 ; count < sportArr.length ; count++)
{ if(!(sportArr[count] instanceof Footballer))
{ System.out.print("name: ");
sportArr[count].print();} }
System.out.println("All football players sorted by position:");
//Same as previous print, but with added player position and club!
for(int count=0 ; count < sportArr.length ; count++)
{ if(sportArr[count] instanceof Footballer)
{
/*what I've tried:
*System.out.println("front players:");
*if(sportArr[count].getPos()=="front") //the .getPos doesn't work because it wants to invoke it on a Sportsman where getPos doesn't exist
*{ sportArr[count].print();} //as the problem above, it doesn't see the object is also a Footballer so it does the Sportsman print()
*
*I wanted to do a regular sportArr[count].pos to print the Position but even now it doesn't recognise the object as Footballer, so I can't see pos.
*/
}
}}}
