How to handle a static final field initializer that throws checked exception

Question

I am facing a use case where I would like to declare a static finalfield with an initializer statement that is declared to throw a checked exception. Typically,

Answer 1

Your code is perfectly valid. I don't find it difficult to read. Other ways would only make it more worse. They're only difficult to read for starters, because most of them are not familiar with that. Just follow the standard conventions with regard to ordering of the elements in the code. E.g. do not put static initializers halfway or at the whole bottom of the code and also do not have multiple of them spreading over the class. Just put one at top, after static declarations.