Android™ How to Program, Second Edition

G.12.4. Modifying Class Employee to Implement Interface Payable

We now modify class Employee such that it implements interface Payable. Figure G.25 contains the modified class, which is identical to that of Fig. G.16 with two exceptions. First, line 4 of Fig. G.25 indicates that class Employee now implements interface Payable. So we must rename earnings to getPaymentAmount throughout the Employee hierarchy. As with method earnings in the version of class Employee in Fig. G.16, however, it does not make sense to implement method getPaymentAmount in class Employee because we cannot calculate the earnings payment owed to a general Employee—we must first know the specific type of Employee. In Fig. G.16, we declared method earnings as abstract for ...