heyimMarc
11/22/2017 - 2:55 PM

@ToString No need to start a debugger to see your fields: Just let lombok generate a toString for you!

Any class definition may be annotated with @ToString to let lombok generate an implementation of the toString() method. By default, it'll print your class name, along with each field, in order, separated by commas.

By setting the includeFieldNames parameter to true you can add some clarity (but also quite some length) to the output of the toString() method.

By default, all non-static fields will be printed. If you want to skip some fields, you can name them in the exclude parameter; each named field will not be printed at all. Alternatively, you can specify exactly which fields you wish to be used by naming them in the of parameter.

By setting callSuper to true, you can include the output of the superclass implementation of toString to the output. Be aware that the default implementation of toString() in java.lang.Object is pretty much meaningless, so you probably don't want to do this unless you are extending another class.

ToStringExample.java
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import lombok.ToString;

@ToString(exclude="id")
public class ToStringExample {
  private static final int STATIC_VAR = 10;
  private String name;
  private Shape shape = new Square(5, 10);
  private String[] tags;
  private int id;
  
  public String getName() {
    return this.getName();
  }
  
  @ToString(callSuper=true, includeFieldNames=true)
  public static class Square extends Shape {
    private final int width, height;
    
    public Square(int width, int height) {
      this.width = width;
      this.height = height;
    }
  }
}