Question

I’m wanting to set a final variable after starting the constant. This works if the variable is not final, but that kind of defeats the purpose.

Can I do something similar to this?

public static final String ASDF = null; 
{
    ASDF = "asdf";
}

My situation:

public static JSONArray CATEGORIES = null; 
{
    String str = "";
    str += "\"" + FIRST_CATEGORY + "\"";
    try {
        CATEGORIES = new JSONArray("[" + str + "]");
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
};

Answer 1

Figured it out. I’m not exactly sure what’s going on here, but it works.

public static final JSONArray CATEGORIES = new JSONArray() {
    {
        put(FIRST_CATEGORY);
        // etc eg. put(SECOND_CATEGORY);
    }
};