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I have a similar problem

Posted by Sachin Sawe on February 22, 2002 at 4:08 PM

Hi Natasha,

I have the same problem. can you tell me whether ur problem got solved ?

> 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.