Hello PerlMonks,
I have a quick question on inheritance. Here is the my super class. 

Package EventHandler;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self  = {
        EVENT_ID            => $event_count,
        EVENT_CAT            => shift,
        EVENT_STATUS        => "current",
        EVENT_COMPONENT     => undef,
        EVENT_START_TIME    => undef,
        EVENT_END_TIME        => undef,
        EVENT_STATE            => "Unknown",
        EVENT_START_LOCATION=> undef,
        EVENT_END_LOCATION  => undef,
        EVENT_RECOVERED_BY    => undef,
    };
    bless( $self, $class );
    $event_count++ ;
    return $self;
}

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I have a sub class DeviceEventHandler which inherits the above EventHandler module.
I create object using DeviceEventHandler ->new() which will call the super class method.
Now my question is how do i add some sub class specific attributes say "DeviceReset" in DeviceEventHandler and instantiate it during object creation.
For that purpose I need to define a "new" method in DeviceEventHandler module which will in turn call the "new" method of the super class.

Please help me out on this..

Thanks.

In reply to Inheritance- Sub class instance variables by snra_perl

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