Accessing variables from onclicklistener

Question

So I have an onItemLongClickListener for a list view that gets a parameter 'int position' passed in. Inside, I have an alertDialogBuilder which has two buttons. I have another onclickListener for the buttons. I need to access the position from inside the second listener. Is there anyway to do this without making it a global?


public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView parent, View itemView, int position, long id){

    AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(BookFace.this);
    alertDialogBuilder.setTitle("Choose an option.");
    alertDialogBuilder
    .setMessage("What would you like to do?")
    .setCancelable(true)
    .setPositiveButton("Edit", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){

        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
            Intent intent = new Intent();
            intent.putExtra("position", position); //Can't access this variable
            intent.setClass(SomeClass.this, EditActivity.class);
            startActivity(intent);
    }

Thanks for your help.

Why don't you want to make it global? – keyser Oct 30 '12 at 20:31 — keyser, Oct 30 '12 at 20:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '12 at 20:33

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If you change position to final, then it should let you access it from within the onClick method.

answered Oct 30 '12 at 20:33

Dave

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '12 at 20:32

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In Java, you can access outer variables from an inner class declaration only if they are first declared as final. So you could add:

final int selectedPosition = position;

to the top of your method and use that value in your extra, i.e.

intent.putExtra("position", selectedPosition);

answered Oct 30 '12 at 20:32

devunwired

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forgot about final. Thank you :) – Bibodha Oct 30 '12 at 20:52

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