How do you display Calendar's in Java in a human-readable way?

Question

I have two array lists consisting of Calendar objects. I need these two lists to contain the same objects and in the same order - but this isn't the case. I ran the program on debugger mode to check the content of the lists but the object descriptions are gibberish. I just want to know if the year, month and day are the same at each step.

This is what my debugger shows:

When I click the arrow next to each index to reveal more information I still can't find what I need. Is there a way around this? Or perhaps there is another debugging tool that I am unfamiliar with? At this stage my debugging skills are limited to placing breakpoints and clicking the bug icon.

Appreciate any help.

Answer 1

• Right-click on one of those calendars.
• Choose Customize data views...
• Go to the second tab: Java data type renderers
• Click the + icon and name your renderer (calendar, for example)
• Type java.util.Calendar in the box "Apply renderer to objects of type..."
• Check the radio button "Use following expression"
• Type the following expression (for example): new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(getTime())
• Click OK.