The reason I wanted to do this was to make my Action classes cleaner. I send a parameter to the Action to determine which item to pull from a database, then forward to a certain page.
I didn't think I could get the switch to work, it was worth a try though. For a situation like mine, what do you all find to be the best way of doing this? I know I can use a series of if statements, it's just not very pretty... Keith Kamholz Programming and Architecture Moog Inc. Phone: (716) 687-7001 -----Original Message----- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:38 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: switch statement Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX wrote: > Hey everyone, > This is more of a Java question than a Struts question, I hope you all don't > mind. Not really, but for future reference I have found this resource to be more helpful for such questions: http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=31 > I'm just wondering if there is any way to use a String for a switch > statement, or if you are restricted to the true primitive types. > I haven't found a way, but it seems like something that lots of people would > want that wouldn't be hard for the Java developers to allow for. > Wouldn't you agree? The reason why it doesn't work is probably specific to the implementation of the language (maybe performance reasons), but a lot of people don't miss it -- nor would they agree, I suspect. The reason is that you can usually add behaviors to objects so that a single polymorphic method call can usually eliminate all of the infrastructural work of writing a switch statement, so doing a switch on an object doens't make much sense in that context. Of course, this is not applicable in all senses, such as your case with String which is final.... Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
