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Oh, in that case, you have little choice other than to use "if else statements or hardcoding" (e.g., equivalently, a switch), unless you can change the class definition. If you can change the class...

I suspect that instead of "class", you mean "object", i.e., you want to write code such that given an object of the Box class, the member variables of the object can be changed depending on the user...