super() in constructor

java constructor super
Nazerke picture Nazerke · Mar 4, 2013 · Viewed 73.6k times · Source

I'm reading through some code. In the constructor it has super() but the class implements interface which of course doesn't have a constructor. So which super() it is referring to?

public class BoundingBox implements IBoundingVolume {

public BoundingBox() {
        super();
        mTransformedMin = new Number3D();
        mTransformedMax = new Number3D();
        mTmpMin = new Number3D();
        mTmpMax = new Number3D();
        mPoints = new Number3D[8];
        mTmp = new Number3D[8];
        mMin = new Number3D();
        mMax = new Number3D();
        for(int i=0; i<8; ++i) {
            mPoints[i] = new Number3D();
            mTmp[i] = new Number3D();
        }
}


public interface IBoundingVolume {
    public void calculateBounds(Geometry3D geometry);
    public void drawBoundingVolume(Camera camera, float[] projMatrix, float[] vMatrix, float[] mMatrix);
    public void transform(float[] matrix);
    public boolean intersectsWith(IBoundingVolume boundingVolume);
    public BaseObject3D getVisual();
}

Answer

cowls picture cowls · Mar 4, 2013

super() refers to the extended class (not an implemented interface). Which in this case is Object

So it will call the constructor in Object (Which does nothing)

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