calling constructors within constsructors

[Murat Tasan]

i have a class and a general constructor, then i have some other
constructors, each of which i'd like use the general constructor.

so in the other ones, i tried something like:

this = MyObject();

but that cannot work, as the variable "this" is final, so it cannot be
assigned anything.

can this be done (similarly to the super() call?).

and yes, i do know that i can wrap the general constructor up into a
private method and have each one of the constructors call that one... in
fact this is what i've already done... but i'm just curious if what i
wanted can be done more elegantly.

thanks,

murat

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[Patrick Carl]

Try the following:

public class MyClass{
public MyClass(){
// simple constructor
}

public MyClass(String str){
this();
// do sth else

}
}

It is important that "this()" is the first statement in your complex
constructors.

Patrick

[Murat Tasan]

thanks for the suggestion, i totally forgot about that...

but then i found out it doesn't work in my situation anyhow... to use the
this(...) line in another constructor, it must be the first executed line
of that method... which doesn't help me.

so i think my alternative is the only way:

wrap the generic constructor into a private initialization method, make
the generic constructor only call this method, and then call this method
from the other constructors when needed.

thanks for the help,

murat

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Patrick Carl wrote:

Try the following:

public class MyClass{
public MyClass(){
// simple constructor
}

public MyClass(String str){
this();
// do sth else

}
}

It is important that "this()" is the first statement in your complex
constructors.

Patrick

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mu*********@cwru.edu
http://genomics.cwru.edu

[Joe]

In article <Pine.SOL.4.53.0310221659350.12383@stewie>,
ta***@eecs.cwru.edu says...

so i think my alternative is the only way:

More often, it works the other way around:

public MyClass(String str){
// set instance variable to str
// do sth else

}
public class MyClass() {
this(String defaultStringValue);

}
}

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