How to instantiante object & call setter on same line?

Question

If I have an Employee class with a default constructor:

private String firstName;
public Employee(){}

and a setter:

Answer 1

(employee = new Employee()).setFirstName("John");

performs instantiation and calling the setter, as you requested in the headline, but does not declare the variable as suggested in your code example.

(Employee employee = new Employee()).setFirstName("John");

will probably not work, I assume. But you can try.

Of course, you can always stuff multiple statements in one line.

Employee employee; (employee = new Employee()).setFirstName("John");

or

Employee employee = new Employee(); employee.setFirstName("John");

If I were you, I would settle for a parameterized constructor, though.