Cannot refer to a non-final variable inside an inner class defined in a different method

Question

Edited: I need to change the values of several variables as they run several times thorugh a timer. I need to keep updating the values with every iteration through the timer

Answer 1

When I stumble upon this issue, I just pass the objects to the inner class through the constructor. If I need to pass primitives or immutable objects (as in this case), a wrapper class is needed.

Edit: Actually, I don't use an anonymous class at all, but a proper subclass:

public class PriceData {
        private double lastPrice = 0;
        private double price = 0;

        public void setlastPrice(double lastPrice) {
            this.lastPrice = lastPrice;
        }

        public double getLastPrice() {
            return lastPrice;
        }

        public void setPrice(double price) {
            this.price = price;
        }

        public double getPrice() {
            return price;
        }
    }

    public class PriceTimerTask extends TimerTask {
        private PriceData priceData;
        private Price priceObject;

        public PriceTimerTask(PriceData priceData, Price priceObject) {
            this.priceData = priceData;
            this.priceObject = priceObject;
        }

        public void run() {
            priceData.setPrice(priceObject.getNextPrice(lastPrice));
            System.out.println();
            priceData.setLastPrice(priceData.getPrice());

        }
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        int period = 2000;
        int delay = 2000;

        PriceData priceData = new PriceData();
        Price priceObject = new Price();

        Timer timer = new Timer();

        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new PriceTimerTask(priceData, priceObject), delay, period);
    }