InetAddress initialization...

[Sagar Patel]

Am willing to initialize an array of InetAddress in the class declaration....

As Expected the following code gives a an unhandled UnknownHostException, however, i cannot surround it with try/catch as its in the class declaration...Where am i goofing up...?!

Can I not by anyway initialize the InetAddress array in the class declaration portion...

  
static InetAddress Srv[] =  
    {InetAddress.getLocalHost(), InetAddress.getLocalHost(), InetAddress.getLocalHost()};  
 

[Rob Spoor]

Try this:

static InetAddress Srv[];

static
{
    try
    {
        Srv = new InetAddress[] {InetAddress.getLocalHost(), InetAddress.getLocalHost(), InetAddress.getLocalHost()};     
    }
    catch (UnknownHostException e)
    {
        // handle
    }
}

This will even work if Srv is final, if you make sure it also gets initialized when the exception is thrown.