How to access the private variables of a class in its subclass?

Question

This is a question I was asked in an interview: I have class A with private members and Class B extends A. I know private members of a class cannot be accessed, but the qu

Answer 1

You cannot access private members from the parent class. You have make it protected or have protected/public method that has access to them.

EDIT : It is true you can use reflection. But that is not usual and not good idea to break encapsulation.