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Java constant classes chaining (dot notation)

If you have only ONE class with constants and then uses that class to get the constants, it is considered a bad idea. I read that usually constant classes are created relative to the closest class that are using these constants.

Then I will need to check for what I called the class before calling a constant, but can I have a syntax that calls different classes constants like this:

Data.MainMenu.STR_PLAY
Data.Shop.INT_PRICE_APPLE;

These classes will only hold values of primitive data types.

Where Data is the main class refering to Shop and MainMenu in some way? This is the syntax I want to be able to do.

Solution

  • Where Data is the main class refering to Shop and MainMenu in some way

    That'd be an inner class

    public class Data {
    public static class MainMenu {
        public static String STR_PLAY;
    } 
    // Same for Shop 
}