[cdarklight]

I have two classes, both are instantiated in the main. I want to pass one class instantiation to be stored and used in the other class.
if I wanted to do something like this, how would it work? Both syntactically and within the program.
Please and thank you

public class A{
	public A(B something){ 
		// what would go here to pass a preexisting item 
		// 'something' of class 'B' into the 'A' class?
	}
	private B myBobject;
}

Could using

myBobject = something;

work without causing possible issues?
what would be the most stable way to do this?

Thanks again to anyone who helps. I'm mostly frustrated because I can do this in c++ by passing a reference. I'm just now learning java and it's confusing in its similarities and differences. I try not to compare the two but its so hard.

[KYA]

Since they're both in main, you don't want any changes in B to affect A's copy of it correct? So, when you pass in B, clone it and assign it to A's data member.

public class A{
	public A(B something){
		myBobject = something.clone();
	}
	private B myBobject;
}

[NeoTifa]

You can create the classes instantiation variable into a constructor, yes, and use it, just as long as your constructor recognizes it as a parameter.

[cdarklight]

Thank you! I like the bit about the clone.

[NeoTifa]

Then click the "this post was helpful" button at the bottom of the helpful post ^__^

[macosxnerd101]

KYA, on 19 Jan, 2010 - 02:51 PM, said:

Since they're both in main, you don't want any changes in B to affect A's copy of it correct? So, when you pass in B, deep clone it and assign it to A's data member.

Fixed. If B contains any non-primitive attributes, you should make sure you create a new B object (should be done anyways) and copy the values from all the attributes from the original into the new object. If you just create a shallow copy, then any reference-type attributes in the new object will point to the same objects as in the original object. So for example, if this is the format of B and you want to clone it, you will have to copy all the elements from list into the LinkedList in the B clone. Otherwise, the LinkedList in the B clone will point to the LinkedList in the original B object.

class B{
   LinkedList list; 
}