Hi
I have the following problem;
I have a string
String a = "e1"
and a method
call(Event e1) that calls the "Event" class with object the name of the string a.
How can I convert the strings name into an object so as to use it in the "call" method?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
ok...
To help I use extra code
void call(Event e){
...
}
void respond(){
String a ="e1";
.......
call(e1);
}
Is this more clear?
I want to give the name of the object dynamically that is the name of the object will be the content of the string "a".
You can't, forget about that. You can't replace things like that in the code.
No, you cannot dynaically name variables in java. The closest you can get to doing what is seems you want to is to use a map to store objects in, using the strings as a key
void respond(){
Event evt = (Event)eventMap.get("e1");
call(evt);
}
~Tim
I don't know if this helps you, but you can do things like this.
String a = "com.example.SomeEvent";
//Instantiate com.example.SomeEvent
Object o = Class.forName(a).newInstance();
SomeEvent must have a non-argument constructor for this to work.
Class that will be instantiated depens on runtime value of String a, and can be different across different executions of the program.
