Renaming openconnection() or cutting it up?

Question

Is it possible to rename the openconnection()?

Orginal:

URL url = new URL(\"http://google.co.in\");
URLConnection connection = url.**openConnection**();
         


        

Answer 1

For the first part, you can't do that directly. You can't derive from URL since it's final, so you'd have to write a proxy class, and that would be a waste of time and could introduce bugs.

For the second one, you could sort of do that using reflection. It's not trivial to do, that's an advanced topic. So I'd avoid that until you are very familiar with the Java language in general.

If you explained what you were trying to achieve, maybe you'd get better suggestions.