Nope you cannot do that. The spec says so.
The conditional operator has three operand expressions. ? appears
between the first and second expressions, and : appears between the
second and third expressions.The first expression must be of type boolean or Boolean, or a
compile-time error occurs.It is a compile-time error for either the second or the third operand
expression to be an invocation of a void method.
[EDIT]
Since you asked about reflection, here’s a solution. I’m not recommending this. I’m posting it only because you asked.
public class MyCall
{
public void a(){System.out.println("a");}
public void b(){System.out.println("b");}
public static void main(String... args)
{
new MyCall().go();
}
public void go()
{
Class<? extends MyCall> class1 = this.getClass();
Method aMethod = class1.getMethod("b", null);
Method bMethod = class1.getMethod("a", null);
Object fake = false ? aMethod.invoke(this, null) : bMethod.invoke(this, null);
Object fake2 = true ? aMethod.invoke(this, null) : bMethod.invoke(this, null);
}
}
At the end of the day you’ve got to ask yourself if being succint improves your code’s readability (think for-each loop). None of these solutions improve the code’s readability IMHO. If I were you I’d rather go with this.
if(condition)
a();
else
b();
I’m actually for including braces even when loops only contain a single line, but since you’re going after crisp code, the snippet above should do.