String error "constant string too long"

Question

There is a 100,000-character text that need to be displayed. If I put it into String object, I get an error "constant string too long". The same is with StringBuffer object.

StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
stringBuffer.append("Long text here........"); //<-- error

Is there a solution to this beside cutting the text into smaller texts?

Answer 1

I had same problem and the solution was the very big string literal that was assigned to one constant, to split it to several smaller literals assigned to new constants and concatenate them.

Example:

Very big string that can not compile:

private static String myTooBigText = "...";

Split it to several constants and concatenate them that compiles:

private static String mySmallText_1 = "...";
private static String mySmallText_2 = "...";
...
private static String mySmallText_n = "...";

private static String myTooBigText = mySmallText_1 + mySmallText_2 + ... + mySmallText_n;

Answer 2

I had same problem and the solution was the very big string literal that was assigned to one constant, to split it to several smaller literals assigned to new constants and concatenate them.

Example:

Very big string that can not compile:

private static String myTooBigText = "...";

Split it to several constants and concatenate them that compiles:

private static String mySmallText_1 = "...";
private static String mySmallText_2 = "...";
...
private static String mySmallText_n = "...";

private static String myTooBigText = mySmallText_1 + mySmallText_2 + ... + mySmallText_n;

Answer 3

I think the length of constant strings in java is limited to 64K -- however, you could construct a string at run time that is bigger than 64K.