Question

I have a static nested class, which I would like to return via a static accessor (getter).

public class SomeClass
{
    public static class Columns<CC>
    {
        ...

        public static int length = 5;
    }

    public static Columns<?> getColumnEnumerator()
    {
        int x = Columns.length; //no problems

        return Columns; //compiler error
        //cannot find symbol: variable Columns location: blah.blah.SomeClass
    }
}

I know why this doesn’t work, because Columns is a class, and not a variable, however, for other reasons, I need to keep columns as a static class. I am not even sure if this doable, but just wanna ask if there was?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, if your static nested class is public, as in your example, I’m wondering why you want to create an accessor while you can directly access the nested class.