Accessing this of containing class

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-02-03 07:21, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2011 21:26:00 Mandeep Singh Brar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a method to access this reference of the container class
>> from an inner class. i.e.
>> class A {
>> class B {
>>     methodM() {
>>        callAnotherM(A::this or A.this);
>>     }
>> }
>> }
>
> The outer class is referenced via the property outer. However, if the inner
> class is static, then it has no such property and is not tied to a specific
> instance of the outer class. In such a case, it can access the private members
> of an instance of the outer class, but it's not tied to an particular instance.
> Non-static inner classes (like yours above), however, _are_ tied to a particular
> instance of the outer class, and they have the outer property which is the this
> of the outer class.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Just to add a note, you have to access the property via "this":

this.outer

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg