java调用类的静态方法,在java 8中，为什么不能调用当前类正在实现的接口静态方法...

I'm playing around Java 8's new features recently and observed an interesting behaviour:

This is okay:

Class A { static void staticMethodInA() {println();} }

Class B extends A {}

B.staticMethodInA();

This would induce an error of: static method may be invoked on containing interface class only.

interface A { static void staticMethodInA() {println();} }

Class B implements A {}

B.staticMethodInA(); // from here IntelliJ complaints..

Can someone tell me why the designer of Java 8 may choose to treat the above 2 cases differently?

解决方案

Addition of static methods in interface in Java 8 came with 1 restriction - those methods cannot be inherited by the class implementing it. And that makes sense, as a class can implement multiple interface. And if 2 interfaces have same static method, they both would be inherited, and compiler wouldn't know which one to invoke.

However, with extending class, that's no issue. static class methods are inherited by subclass.

A class C inherits from its direct superclass all concrete methods m (both static and instance) of the superclass

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A class C inherits from its direct superclass and direct superinterfaces all abstract and default (§9.4) methods m

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A class does not inherit static methods from its superinterfaces.