Robert Kish created MCOMPILER-228: ------------------------------------- Summary: cannot assign a value to final variable in lamda Key: MCOMPILER-228 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOMPILER-228 Project: Maven Compiler Plugin Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.1 Environment: Windows 7 64 bit, Maven 3.2.2, JDK 64 bit 8u5 Reporter: Robert Kish Priority: Minor Attachments: FinalExample.java
Code example compiles in Eclipse, but not with Maven Compiler Plugin. Code is like below (inside a lamda expression) final x; if (some condition) x = a; else if (some other condition) x = b; else x = c; See attached example source. [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project MediaIndexer: Compilation failure: Compilation failure: [ERROR] /C:/MAPS/MediaIndexer/src/main/java/example/FinalExample.java:[11,13] cannot assign a value to final variable compareTo [ERROR] /C:/MAPS/MediaIndexer/src/main/java/example/FinalExample.java:[14,13] cannot assign a value to final variable compareTo [ERROR] /C:/MAPS/MediaIndexer/src/main/java/example/FinalExample.java:[17,13] cannot assign a value to final variable compareTo The workaround is to remove final for the variable and just ensure that the value is assigned in each code path. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)