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Does Java support inner / local / sub methods?

Asked 2011-03-22T08:35:19.673
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This is my code.

public class SubFunction {
    private String drawTribleX(){
        return trible("X");
    }
    private String trible(String t){
        return t + t + t;
    }
    public static void main(String[] args){
        SubFunction o = new SubFunction();
        System.out.println(o.drawTribleX());
    }
}

Can I do something like this ?

public class SubFunction {
    private String drawTribleX(){
        // *** move trible(t) inside drawTribleX() ***
        private String trible(String t){
            return t + t + t;
        }
        return trible("X");
    }
    public static void main(String[] args){
        SubFunction o = new SubFunction();
        System.out.println(o.drawTribleX());
    }
}

Thank you.

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You could use an anonymous class. Something like this;

class SubFunction {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SubFunction o = new SubFunction();
        System.out.println(o.drawTribleX());
    }

    private String drawTribleX() {
        MyTrible trible = new MyTrible() {
            @Override
            public String doTrible(String t) {
                return t + t + t;
            }
        };

        return trible.doTrible("X");
    }

    private interface MyTrible {
        public String doTrible(String t);
    }
}

If you wanted you could define different types of operations with the same interface, and pass these around as you like.

answered 2011-03-22T08:55:32.993

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