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/* AutoToString, A generator of object's String representation. | |
* Copyright (C) 2024 - Xibitol (https://github.com/Xibitol) | |
* | |
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by | |
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
* (at your option) any later version. | |
* | |
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. | |
* | |
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License | |
* along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
*/ | |
import java.lang.reflect.Field; | |
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier; | |
/** Gives an overriding of the {@code toString} method. It's based on | |
* introspection of non-static implementing class's fields.<br><br> | |
* | |
* Be carefull about recursivity when {@link toString} calling makes a loop. For | |
* example, when an {@code Object} wants to represent one of its field that | |
* needs also to represent one of its fields that contains the first one (Or | |
* something similar). | |
* | |
* <pre> | |
*class A extends AutoToString{ | |
* private B object; | |
*} | |
* | |
*class B extends AutoToString{ | |
* private A object; | |
*} | |
* </pre> | |
* | |
* That will end up in filling the stack. {@link createString} can helps you in | |
* this case.<br><br> | |
* | |
* <i>Licensed under <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl+gpl-3.0.txt"> | |
* GNU LGPL-3.0</a></i>. | |
* @version 1.1.2 | |
* @author xibitol | |
*/ | |
public abstract class AutoToString { | |
/** Generates a {@code String} representation of the implementing class. | |
* It's based on an introspection of the given non-static {@code fields}. | |
* | |
* @param fields Fields to include in the representation. | |
* @return The {@link String} representation of this object with the | |
* {@code fields} given. | |
* @since 1.1.0 | |
*/ | |
protected String createString(Field[] fields){ | |
String end = ", "; | |
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(this.getClass().getName() + "{"); | |
for(Field f : fields){ | |
if(!Modifier.isStatic(f.getModifiers())){ | |
sb.append(f.getName()); | |
sb.append("="); | |
f.setAccessible(true); // BUG: Is this can fail ? | |
try{ sb.append(f.get(this)); }catch(Exception ignored){} | |
sb.append(end); | |
} | |
} | |
sb.replace(sb.length() - end.length(), sb.length(), "}"); | |
return sb.toString(); | |
} | |
@Override | |
public String toString(){ | |
return createString(this.getClass().getDeclaredFields()); | |
} | |
} |
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