Java要求，如果在构造函数中调用this()或super()，它必须是第一条语句。为什么?
例如:
public class MyClass {
public MyClass(int x) {}
}
public class MySubClass extends MyClass {
public MySubClass(int a, int b) {
int c = a + b;
super(c); // COMPILE ERROR
}
}
Sun编译器说，调用super必须是构造函数中的第一条语句。Eclipse编译器说，构造函数调用必须是构造函数中的第一个语句。
然而，你可以通过稍微重新安排代码来解决这个问题:
public class MySubClass extends MyClass {
public MySubClass(int a, int b) {
super(a + b); // OK
}
}
下面是另一个例子:
public class MyClass {
public MyClass(List list) {}
}
public class MySubClassA extends MyClass {
public MySubClassA(Object item) {
// Create a list that contains the item, and pass the list to super
List list = new ArrayList();
list.add(item);
super(list); // COMPILE ERROR
}
}
public class MySubClassB extends MyClass {
public MySubClassB(Object item) {
// Create a list that contains the item, and pass the list to super
super(Arrays.asList(new Object[] { item })); // OK
}
}
因此，它不会阻止您在调用super()之前执行逻辑。它只是阻止您执行无法放入单个表达式中的逻辑。
调用this()也有类似的规则。编译器说，调用this必须是构造函数中的第一条语句。
为什么编译器有这些限制?你能给出一个代码例子，如果编译器没有这个限制，就会发生不好的事情吗?
在构造子对象之前，必须先创建父对象。
如你所知，当你这样写类时:
public MyClass {
public MyClass(String someArg) {
System.out.println(someArg);
}
}
它转向下一个(extend和super只是被隐藏了):
public MyClass extends Object{
public MyClass(String someArg) {
super();
System.out.println(someArg);
}
}
First we create an Object and then extend this object to MyClass. We can not create MyClass before the Object.
The simple rule is that parent's constructor has to be called before child constructor.
But we know that classes can have more that one constructor. Java allow us to choose a constructor which will be called (either it will be super() or super(yourArgs...)).
So, when you write super(yourArgs...) you redefine constructor which will be called to create a parent object. You can't execute other methods before super() because the object doesn't exist yet (but after super() an object will be created and you will be able to do anything you want).
So why then we cannot execute this() after any method?
As you know this() is the constructor of the current class. Also we can have different number of constructors in our class and call them like this() or this(yourArgs...). As I said every constructor has hidden method super(). When we write our custom super(yourArgs...) we remove super() with super(yourArgs...). Also when we define this() or this(yourArgs...) we also remove our super() in current constructor because if super() were with this() in the same method, it would create more then one parent object.
That is why the same rules imposed for this() method. It just retransmits parent object creation to another child constructor and that constructor calls super() constructor for parent creation.
So, the code will be like this in fact:
public MyClass extends Object{
public MyClass(int a) {
super();
System.out.println(a);
}
public MyClass(int a, int b) {
this(a);
System.out.println(b);
}
}
正如其他人所说，你可以这样执行代码:
this(a+b);
你也可以像这样执行代码:
public MyClass(int a, SomeObject someObject) {
this(someObject.add(a+5));
}
但是你不能像这样执行代码，因为你的方法还不存在:
public MyClass extends Object{
public MyClass(int a) {
}
public MyClass(int a, int b) {
this(add(a, b));
}
public int add(int a, int b){
return a+b;
}
}
此外，在this()方法链中必须有super()构造函数。你不能像这样创建一个对象:
public MyClass{
public MyClass(int a) {
this(a, 5);
}
public MyClass(int a, int b) {
this(a);
}
}
你问为什么，其他的答案，在我看来，并没有真正说为什么它是可以调用你的超级构造函数，但只有当它是第一行。原因是您并没有真正调用构造函数。在c++中，等价的语法是
MySubClass: MyClass {
public:
MySubClass(int a, int b): MyClass(a+b)
{
}
};
When you see the initializer clause on its own like that, before the open brace, you know it's special. It runs before any of the rest of the constructor runs and in fact before any of the member variables are initialized. It's not that different for Java. There's a way to get some code (other constructors) to run before the constructor really starts, before any members of the subclass are initialized. And that way is to put the "call" (eg super) on the very first line. (In a way, that super or this is kind of before the first open brace, even though you type it after, because it will be executed before you get to the point that everything is fully constructed.) Any other code after the open brace (like int c = a + b;) makes the compiler say "oh, ok, no other constructors, we can initialize everything then." So it runs off and initializes your super class and your members and whatnot and then starts executing the code after the open brace.
如果几行之后，它遇到一些代码说“哦，是的，当你构造这个对象时，这是我想让你传递给基类构造函数的参数”，那就太晚了，这没有任何意义。所以你会得到一个编译器错误。
