Ternary Operator - JAVA [duplicate]

Question

Is it possible to change this:

if(String!= null) {      callFunction(parameters);  } else {      // Intentionally left blank  } 

...to a ternary operator?

Answer 1

Well, the ternary operator in Java acts like this...

return_value = (true-false condition) ? (if true expression) : (if false expression); 

...Another way of looking at it...

return_value = (true-false condition)               ? (if true expression)               : (if false expression); 

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You question is kind of vague and we have to assume here.

• If (and only if) callFunction(...) declares a non-void return value (Object, String, int, double, etc..) - it seems like it does not do that via your code - then you could do this...

  return_value = (string != null)               ? (callFunction(...))               : (null); 

• If callFunction(...) does not return a value, then you cannot use the ternary operator! Simple as that. You will be using something that you don't need.

  • Please post more code to clear up any issues

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Nonetheless, ternary operator should represent alternative assignments only!! Your code does not seem to do that, so you should not be doing that.

This is how they should work...

if (obj != null) {            // If-else statement      retVal = obj.getValue();  // One alternative assignment for retVal  } else {      retVal = "";              // Second alternative assignment for retVale  } 

This can be converted to...

retVal = (obj != null)        ? (obj.getValue())        : (""); 

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Since it seems like you might be trying to just refactor this code to be a one-liner, I have added the following

Also, if your false-clause is truely empty, then you can do this...

if (string != null) {      callFunction(...);  } // Take note that there is not false clause because it isn't needed 

OR

if (string != null) callFunction(...);  // One-liner