[ACCEPTED]-Is it possible to call the main method passing args[] from another method?-java

Accepted answer

Score: 23

You can call the main method as you would call 1 any other (static) method:

MyClass.main(new String[] {"arg1", "arg2", "arg3"});

Example:

class MyClass {
    public static void test() {
        MyClass.main(new String[] {"arg1", "arg2", "arg3"});
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        for (String s : args)
            System.out.println(s);
    }
}

Score: 13

Yes, the main method can be called like 4 any other method, so if you have a class 3 Test with a main method, you can call it 2 from any other class like:

Test.main(new String[] { "a", "b" });

and this way you'll 1 pass "a" and "b" as the parameters.

Score: 5

Have you tried something like :

// In your method
String[] yourArgs = new String[] {"foo", "baz", "bar"};
YourClassWithMain.main(yourArgs);

But I think 6 this is not a good idea, the main() method 5 should only contain some very basic code 4 which calls the constructor. You shouldn't 3 call it directly, but rather create a new 2 instance of your other class which will 1 do all the initialization needed.

Score: 4

The answer is yes,

Since main is a static method and 2 is public method, you can do this (and it compiled 1 on my case):

/**
 * @author The Elite Gentleman
 *
 */
public class Test {

    /**
     * 
     */
    public Test() {
        super();
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
        Test.main(new String[] {"main"}); //Yes, it works and compiles....
    }

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        System.out.println("Hello");

    }
}

Score: 2

Sure, you can call the main-method just as an 7 ordinary (static) method like this:

TheClass.main(new String[] { "lorem", "ipsum" });

As a 6 side note, you could declare the main method 5 like this:

public static void main(String... args) { ... }

and call it like

TheClass.main("lorem", "ipsum");

The bytecode produced 4 is the same (varargs are compiled to arrays), so 3 it is backward compatible in all ways (except 2 that it won't compile on non-vararg aware 1 java-compilers).

Score: 0

You could just rename your main and make 3 a new one, making it call the "new" main. At 2 least that's what I generally do when unit 1 testing

Source: stackoverflow.com

[ACCEPTED]-Is it possible to call the main method passing args[] from another method?-java

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