How to print the content of an object

Question

When I start my program, it gives me a link to an object, while I want to get the content. Where's my mistake?

I think the problem lies in storage.addRecord(record) in ReaderXls.class.

Result:

 Reading is over 
 Start reading from Storage
 work2obj.Record@2910d926

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  public class Start {
            public static void main(String[] args) {
                System.out.println("Start reading from Xls");
                ReaderXls read = new ReaderXls();
                Storage storage;
                storage = read.ReadXls("Text1obj",0,1);
                System.out.println("Reading is over");
                System.out.println("Start reading from Storage");
                System.out.println(storage.getRecord(1));
            }
        }

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  public class Storage
    {
        List<Record> record;
        public Storage(){
            this.record = new ArrayList<Record>();
        }

.

  public Record getRecord(int number){
            return this.record.get(number);
        }    
      }

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  public class ReaderXls {
  public Storage ReadXls(String sfilename,int firstColumn, int lastColumn){
            Storage storage = new Storage();
            try {      
  Record record = new Record(j, Integer.parseInt(ContentCount), RowContent);
                    storage.addRecord(record);
  }
 }

Answer 1

You should implement the toString method in the Record class to return a string containing the data you want to display.

By default, since your class doesn't implement toString, Object.toString() gets called, which returns <the name of the class>@<the object's hashcode>

Answer 2

You need to Override toString method inside Record class to get the content of object. It Returns a string representation of the object.

If you want to represent any object as a string, toString() method comes into existence. The toString() method returns the string representation of the object. If you print any object, java compiler internally invokes the toString() method on the object. So overriding the toString() method, returns the desired output, it can be the state of an object etc. depends on your implementation.

Read more about it's implementation from here.