Tag: Double Brace Initialisation

From time to time, I find someone using the double curly braces anti pattern (also called double brace initialisation) in the wild. This time on Stack Overflow: Map source = new HashMap(){{ put("firstName", "John"); put("lastName", "Smith"); put("organizations", new HashMap(){{ put("0", new HashMap(){{ put("id", "1234"); }}); put("abc", new HashMap(){{ put("id", "5678"); }}); }}); }}; In case … Continue reading Don’t be “Clever”: The Double Curly Braces Anti Pattern →