Question

I extend a class with multiple constructors. I add a final field in my subclass which ofcourse needs to be initialized in my own constructors.

The problem is I don’t want to re-implement (most) of the constructors of the superclass, so I would like to do something like this:

public myConstructor(Object... params){
    super(params);
    try{
        this.finalField = "backup value";
    }
    catch(someException e){

    }
}

Is this possible in some way or the other?

edit:
I realized this scenario will never happen, because the superclass constructor will never call my own constructor.

Answer 1

Have all your constructors call one single constructor that sets the final field.