final public static ints can't be used in a switch statement?
case, java, switch-statement
Solution
From what you've shown `H5T_ORDER_BE` is not a compile-time constant (which it needs to be) - it's evaluated at runtime during the initialisation of the class. If it evaluated to a constant such as `123` (rather than what appears to be a static method call) then the compiler wouldn't complain.
Problem
I'm confused. The following code has errors ("..." represents elided code): ``` int byteOrder = ...; switch (byteOrder) { case HDF5Constants.H5T_ORDER_BE: return ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN; ... } ``` The error is on the case statement and Eclipse complains "case expressions must be constant expressions". I looked in the source file for this and it has a long list of lines like this: ``` final public static int H5T_ORDER_BE = H5.J2C( JH5T_ORDER_BE ); ``` I thought you could use `final public static int` constants as cases in a switch statement. Am I wrong???