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From: R Wat on 7 Jun 2010 17:19
I am currently working on an object oriented program which uses a constructor to build an object array. However, I am having problems when it comes to the inheritance of this constructor. For example, as found on the mathworks documentation for creating object arrays (http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_oop/brd4btr.html) a class would be defined as follows:

classdef DocArrayExample
properties
Value
end
methods
function obj = DocArrayExample(F)
if nargin ~= 0 % Allow nargin == 0 syntax
m = size(F,1);
n = size(F,2);
obj(m,n) = DocArrayExample; % Preallocate object array
for i = 1:m
for j = 1:n
obj(i,j).Value = F(i,j);
end
end
end
end
end
end

However, if I was to then define a subclass as follows:

classdef subDocArrayExample < DocArrayExample
methods
function obj = subDocArrayExample(F)
obj = obj(a)DocArrayExample(F);
end
end
end

Matlab gets very unhappy. If I don't preallocate the memory as found by the superclass' line "obj(m,n) = DocArrayExample; % Preallocate object array" then I don't have any problems. If possible, I would like to be able to preallocate the memory as I'm dealing with large quantities of data.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
From: Matt J on 7 Jun 2010 17:54
"R Wat" <rhino7890(a)aol.com> wrote in message <hujnoa$ejs$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...

> Matlab gets very unhappy.
=======

Could you translate "Matlab gets very unhappy" into actual error messages and input data?
From: R Wat on 8 Jun 2010 08:32
"Matt J " <mattjacREMOVE(a)THISieee.spam> wrote in message
>
> Could you translate "Matlab gets very unhappy" into actual error messages and input >data?

From the above code, the superclass works fine:
>> DocArrayExample(ones(4,3))
ans =

4x3 DocArrayExample

However, this is the error that I get when I try to use the subclass in the same exact implementation:
subDocArrayExample(ones(4,3))
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Error in ==> DocArrayExample>DocArrayExample.DocArrayExample at 10
obj(m,n) = DocArrayExample; % Preallocate object array

Error in ==> subDocArrayExample>subDocArrayExample.subDocArrayExample at 4
obj = obj(a)DocArrayExample(F);
From: Matt J on 9 Jun 2010 10:12
"R Wat" <rhino7890(a)aol.com> wrote in message <hujnoa$ejs$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...

> methods
> function obj = DocArrayExample(F)
> if nargin ~= 0 % Allow nargin == 0 syntax
> m = size(F,1);
> n = size(F,2);
> obj(m,n) = DocArrayExample; % Preallocate object array
==============

You need to change the pre-allocation

obj(m,n) = feval(class(obj));

It seems that, when the superclass instructor is invoked from the subclass, it is passed an obj of the subclass type. As originally written, your code was therefore trying to stick a superclass instance into an array of the subclass. This signals MATLAB to attempt a conversion from a DocArrayExample to a subDocArrayExample, and it doesn't know how.

====================
> for i = 1:m
> for j = 1:n
> obj(i,j).Value = F(i,j);
> end
> end
> end
> end
> end
> end
>
> However, if I was to then define a subclass as follows:
>
> classdef subDocArrayExample < DocArrayExample
> methods
> function obj = subDocArrayExample(F)
> obj = obj(a)DocArrayExample(F);
> end
> end
> end
>
=========

With the change above, you know also need to handle the zero argument case in the subclass

function obj = subDocArrayExample(varargin)
obj = obj(a)DocArrayExample(varargin{:});
end
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