Passing dependent objects to a parent constructor in Scala
- by Nick Johnson
Suppose I have the following class heirarchy:
class A()
class B(a:A)
class C(b:B)
class BaseClass(b:B, c:C)
Now I want to implement a subclass of BaseClass, which is given an instance of A, and constructs instances of B and C, which it passes to its superclass constructor.
If I could use arbitrary expressions, I'd do something like this:
b = new B(a)
c = new C(b)
super(b, c)
Because the second argument to the parent constructor depends on the value of the first argument, though, I can't see any way to do this, without using a factory function, or a gratuitous hack, such as :
class IntermediateSubclass(b:B) extends BaseClass(b, new C(b))
class RealSubclass(a:A) extends IntermediateSubclass(new B(a))
Is there clean way to do this?
