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Inheritance

This is how you declare that a class in kotlin kan be Inheritantet from with the "open" modifier

    override fun toString(): String {
        return "ID: "+id.toString() +" Name: "+ name+ " description: "+description+" Living Status: "+alive+ "\n"
    }
    open val description: String
        get() = "This animal is called a $name It's age is $age"
    open fun kill() { alive = false }
    }

Overriding Methods

the way to override methods from the superclass is also with the open modifier as seen above. If the superclass methods does not have a open modifier the subclass can not override the given method.

Calling from the superclass

a way you can call methods from the superclass in the subclass is with the keyword "super" as seen in the code below

open class Herbivore(val age:Int) {
    open fun eat(){println ("i eat plants")}

}

interface Carnivore{
    fun eat() { println("i eat meat") }

}

open class Omnivore(age:Int,name: String) : Herbivore(age), Carnivore {
    override fun eat() {
        super<Herbivore>.eat() // call to Herbivore.eat()
        super<Carnivore>.eat() // call to Carnivore.eat()
    }
}

Overriding with inheritance and interfaces

it's fine to inherit from both inheritance and a interface but the problem comes when both of them have a method with the same name this can be fixed with the useing super qualified by the supertype name in angle brackets "super<>" as seen above.

Abstract Class

Abstract classes may contain both abstract and non-abstract properties and methods. An abstract class is useless on its own because you cannot create objects from it. Any subclass that extends the abstract class must implement all of its abstract methods and properties, or the subclass should also be declared as abstract Abstract classes are also open by default.