Multiple inheritance for an anonymous class

Question

How can an anonymous class implement two (or more) interfaces? Alternatively, how can it both extend a class and implement an interface? For example, I want to create an object of anonymous class that extends two interfaces:

    // Java 10 "var" is used since I don't know how to specify its type
    var lazilyInitializedFileNameSupplier = (new Supplier<String> implements AutoCloseable)() {
        private String generatedFileName;
        @Override
        public String get() { // Generate file only once
            if (generatedFileName == null) {
              generatedFileName = generateFile();
            }
            return generatedFileName;
        }
        @Override
        public void close() throws Exception { // Clean up
            if (generatedFileName != null) {
              // Delete the file if it was generated
              generatedFileName = null;
            }
        }
    };

Then I can use it in a try-with-resources block as AutoCloseable as lazily-initialized utility class:

        try (lazilyInitializedFileNameSupplier) {
            // Some complex logic that might or might not 
            // invoke the code that creates the file
            if (checkIfNeedToProcessFile()) {
                doSomething(lazilyInitializedFileNameSupplier.get());
            }
            if (checkIfStillNeedFile()) {
                doSomethingElse(lazilyInitializedFileNameSupplier.get());
            }
        } 
        // By now we are sure that even if the file was generated, it doesn't exist anymore

I don't want to create an inner class because I'm absolutely sure that this class won't be used anywhere except the method I need to use it in (and I also might want to use local variables declared in that method that might be of var type).

Answer 1

Anonymous classes must extend or implement something, like any other Java class, even if it's just java.lang.Object.

For example:

Runnable r = new Runnable() {
   public void run() { ... }
};

Here, r is an object of an anonymous class which implements Runnable.

An anonymous class can extend another class using the same syntax:

SomeClass x = new SomeClass() {
   ...
};

What you can't do is implement more than one interface. You need a named class to do that. Neither an anonymous inner class, nor a named class, however, can extend more than one class.