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A class can override methods that it inherits.

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Previously, you saw that the object class is the common ancestor of every class, so every class inherits

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methods from the object class.

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Now, clients can customize it can override methods that inherits.

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So in this lesson, you're going to override the two string method.

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Inside main Java, call to string from one of the objects and print the results again, we haven't defined

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a two string method inside the person class.

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So where is the two string coming from?

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Remember that the object class is the ancestor of every single class.

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So by default, our person class is going to inherit this two string method.

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So let's use it and see what happens.

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Run the debugger.

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And here it basically returns the identity of the object, the name of the class, followed by an ad

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symbol and he hexadecimal representation of the object has code.

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So back here, if I press next.

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It shows us what we expect the name of the class, followed by the add symbol and the objects code as

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a hexadecimal string.

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OK, now, instead of printing the hexadecimal, it would be nice if printing the object print its fields'.

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That's why we need to override the two string method override means to change the logic of an inherited

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method.

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You're going to customize you're going to override the two string method for the person class and you

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already know how to override a tutoring method.

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You've done it a million times before.

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All we have to do is replicate the signature of the two string method we're inheriting.

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And here we can write whatever we want.

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We could return high.

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But the point is we overrode the two string method and Java is going to use this one instead.

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So try it out, run the debugger.

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And it calls the tutoring method that we overrode.

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But there's a much easier way to override to string, just right to string and let Intellisense autocomplete

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the method for you and beautiful once again, don't worry about super will cover it later.

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And now we can just customise the two string method just like we always do.

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We'll just return the objects fields as part of a long string.

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And now remember, the override annotation just means we're overriding a method that we inherited.

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You don't have to include it.

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In the past, we never had it.

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But it's good practice to leave it because if you misspell the method, it's going to throw an error

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and say there's no method string whity to override.

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So just leaving it as good practice, it's going to prevent potential errors.

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Now, if we rerun the code to the person, object calls the overwritten it to string method.

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And it prints our fields.

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But recall, we don't need to explicitly call the tutoring method when you print an object java smart

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enough to internally call it.

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Let's recap, you overrode the two Tshering method.

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To override means to change the logic of an inherited method when you override a method, Java calls

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that one instead.