Re: Statements before super()

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:00:06 -0800
Message-ID:
<hkva98$mej$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Tom Anderson wrote:

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Mike Schilling wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

new SeparatedString("foo=bar", '=')

is equivalent to:

new StringPair("foo", "bar)
*/
class SeparatedString {
 public SeparatedString(String str, char separator) {
 // now what?


   this(split(str, separator));
   }
}
private String[] split(String str, char separator)
{
   ...
}

private SeparatedString(String[] strings)
{
   super(strings[0], strings[1]);
}

I refuse to be concerned about the cost of the allocation of the
String array.


Okay. So now:

/** A string pair combining a search term, and the string resulting
from using the term as the parameter to the supplied query.
*/
class TermAndResult extends StringPair {
 public KeyAndValueString(String term, PreparedStatement query) {
 // and no, it's not Derby or H2
 }
}

Believe me, i can keep contriving examples all week!


The same thing, but make "split" talk to the DBMS, and probably thow some
interesting exceptions.

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