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Sometimes it makes really sense to look at other peoples code, especially when you know that the target code was developed by a skilled developer.
As many others, i am regulary overriding toString() for a more human friendly object representation. Because being lazy, i never invested time to do it cleanly so i handcoded the needed attributes with descriptive text in there. Now i saw that:
public String toString() {
return ReflectionToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(this,
ToStringStyle.MULTI_LINE_STYLE);
}
is easier, faster, better and everything. As allways, its not the question if there are good solutions for certain problems, but where to look for. In this case, you should look for Commons-Lang from Apache to use this piece of code.
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