Anonymous classes and non-default constructors

Question

I've got a class with only one constructor and that takes an argument. In another class, I want to have an anonymous class that extends this class with something like:
new MyClassWithoutDefaultConstructor(myConstuctorArg) {...}
However, I get a "The constructor MyClassWithoutDefaultConstructor() is undefined".
As a workaround I can create a local class (not anonymous) that extends MyClassWithoutDefaultConstructor and then includes a default constructor which passes my arg to the super constructor. But this is rather messy.
Am I missing something?

Answer 1

The following works fine for me (prints 5):
public abstract class Test
    private final int parameter;
    public Test(int parameter)
        this.parameter=parameter;
    public int getParameter()
        return parameter;
    public abstract int getSomething();
    public static void main(String[] args)
        Test test=new Test(3)
            public int getSomething()
                return getParameter()+2;
        System.out.println(test.getSomething());
}You say your anonymous class is in a different class to the one it extends - what is the access modifier on the constuctor you are calling in the base class? Is the constructor visible from the class containing the anonymous class? Can you post a concise example that produces the compiler error that you are getting?