Method local inner class

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• Sometimes we can declare a class inside a method, such type of inner classes are called method local inner class.     

• The main purpose of method local inner class is to define method specific repeated functionality.
• Method local inner classes are best suitable to meet nested method requirements.
• We can access method local inner classes only within the method where we declare.
• Outside of the method we can't access.
• Because of it's less scope, method local inner classes are most rarely used type of inner class.
  

Ex. 

• We can declare method local inner class inside both instance and static method.
• If we declare inner class inside instance method then from that method local inner class can access both static and non static members of outer class directly. 
• If we declare inner class inside static method then we can access only static members of outer class directly from that method local inner class.
  

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 The only applicable modifiers for method local inner classes are:

If we are trying to apply any other modifier then we will get compile time error.

 

Related topic

1. Inner class
   
2. Normal / Regular inner class.
3. Method local inner class.
4. Anonymous inner class.
5. Static nested class.