Access outer anonymous class from inner anonymous class

Question

I\'m just curious. Is there a way to access parent in anonymous class that is inside another anonymous class?

I make this example create a JTable subclass

Answer 1

I think you can create outer reference and use it in your anonymous inner. At least that works for me on JDK 1.7 and JDK 1.8.

public class Test{

        public static void main(String args []){

            class Foo extends JTable {

                @Override
                public void changeSelection(
                    final int row, final int column,
                    final boolean toggle, final boolean extend) {
                    final Foo outer = this; // reference to itself

                    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
                        @Override
                        public void run() {
                            outer.changeSelection(row, column, toggle, extend); 
                            //more code here
                        }
                    });
                }
            };

            JTable table = new Foo();

        }//end main

 }//end test