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Message:

switch statement

Posted by Jianbo on January 10, 2001 at 12:25 PM

I have a problem with "switch statement" in the following code:

final int commandId = reteriveId(); //which returns a final int
switch (commandId)
{
case ManagerCommand.SOME_NOTIFICATION:
//code block
break;
}

ManagerCommand is a "final class" and SOME_NOTIFICATION is defined in this class as "public static final int"

The compiler gives me this error message:
"constant expression required"

I don't know what is wrong with my code. Please help me. Thanks!!!