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Switch Statement

Posted by Natasha on February 21, 2001 at 3:16 PM

Hi!
I have a problem with the case lablel of the switch statement.
I have 2 classes namely "StatusEvent" & "test". The StatusEvent
class has a public static final int as follows:

public class StatusEvent{
public static final int REPLACED = 1;
.
.
.
public int getType(){
return 1;
}
}

In the test class I use the StatusEvent as follows:

public void processEvent(StatusEvent event){

switch(event.getType()){
case event.REPLACED;
break;
}

At compile time I get an error : constant expression required,
even though REPLACED is a public static final int in the
StatusEvent class. Any suggestions??

PS this is somewhat similar to the problem posted on Jan 11.

• I have a similar problem Sachin Sawe February 22, 2002 at 4:08 PM (0)