.getClass() when objects are extending an abstract class?

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When calling .getClass() on objects that are instances of classes extending an abstract class, the behavior will be as follows:

1. If you call .getClass() on an object that is an instance of one of the concrete classes that extend the abstract class, it will return the actual class of the object. For example, if you have a ConcreteClass1 and a ConcreteClass2 both extending AbstractClass, calling .getClass() on an instance of ConcreteClass1 will return ConcreteClass1.

2. If you call .getClass() on an object that is an instance of the abstract class itself (i.e., you have not instantiated one of the concrete classes), it will return the actual class of the concrete subclass that was instantiated. For example, if you have instantiated an object as AbstractClass obj = new ConcreteClass1(), calling .getClass() on obj will return ConcreteClass1.

In summary, when comparing classes that extend an abstract class using .getClass(), it will always return the actual runtime class of the object being referenced.

[untold bronze]

An object is always of one class, the class used when creating the object with new

getClass will return that class

so if you compare the results from getClass on two objects with a different class, it will return the different classes

and they will not be equal

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