Is not an enclosing class Java

Question

I'm trying to make a Tetris game and I'm getting the compiler error

Shape is not an enclosing class

when I try to create an object

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Shape s = new Shapes.ZShape();
    }
}

I'm using inner classes for each shape. Here's part of my code

public class Shapes {
    class AShape {
    }
    class ZShape {
    }
}

What am I doing wrong ?

Answer 1

ZShape is not static so it requires an instance of the outer class.

The simplest solution is to make ZShape and any nested class static if you can.

I would also make any fields final or static final that you can as well.

Answer 2

Suppose RetailerProfileModel is your Main class and RetailerPaymentModel is an inner class within it. You can create an object of the Inner class outside the class as follows:

RetailerProfileModel.RetailerPaymentModel paymentModel
        = new RetailerProfileModel().new RetailerPaymentModel();

Answer 3

What I would suggest is not converting the non-static class to a static class because in that case, your inner class can't access the non-static members of outer class.

Example :

class Outer
{
    class Inner
    {
        //...
    }
}

So, in such case, you can do something like:

Outer o = new Outer();
Outer.Inner obj = o.new Inner();