Re: define a set of constant
a wrote:
I would like to define a set of constants and these constant will be use=
d as
the input of the method.
public Interface MesgConst
You can afford the extra typing to make the class name readable.
Use of interfaces to define constants is an antipattern, labeled the
Constant Interface Antipattern by Josh Bloch and others. Don't do
that. Interfaces are to define types. Anyway, Arne is right - you
want an enum, not an interface.
{
public final static String str1="This is string 1";
public final static String str2="This is string 2";
}
The following is the method
public void method(MesgConst _val)
Don't use underscores in the names of non-constant variables.
{
}
The usage of the constant,
obj.method(MesgConst.str1)
The point for doing this is to limit the options for the user to input w=
hen
With an enum, you can include the method in the enum itself.
Naturally it won't take an argument because the enum class instance is
the implicit first ("this") argument of an instance method.
It is very similiar to HasHorizontalAlignment and
HasHorizontalAlignment.HorizontalAlignment, but I dont understand how it
works.
Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
Can you use enum?
He should.
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