Building a class which initializes abject like String class?

[malaya nayak]

how can i create my own class that can be instantiated like we are creating string objects..

String s= "abc";

MyClass c= "xyz";// here my object should get initialized....

[fred rosenberger]

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think you can. I believe that the String class gets special treatment by the compiler to allow that.

Now, I guess you COULD implement your own compiler that would give you this support for your class, but it's probably not worth it.

[Campbell Ritchie]

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[Ulrika Tingle]

malaya nayak wrote:how can i create my own class that can be instantiated like we are creating string objects..

String s= "abc";

MyClass c= "xyz";// here my object should get initialized....

It's not possible in Java. The reason it works for String is because this particular class gets special language support to behave partly like a primitive.

You can come quite close though. Instead of using new you use a static creation class for your objects. And if you use a so called static import you don't need to prefix static methods of a class. The end-result would be something like,

MyClass c= create("xyz");

It's not perfect but it's as close as Java will take you at the moment.

[malaya nayak]

can you explain the procedure..

i am not able to find the create() method.

[Rob Spoor]

You need to create it, but it can also be a constructor of the MyClass class itself:

public MyClass(String s) { ... }

MyClass c = new MyClass("xyz");