java toString for any object [duplicate]

Question

I have a lot of data objects, and I want to be able to generate a String representing each object, without implementing a toString method for each one.

I'm thinking of reflection for getting the fields and its values.

any other ideas?

thanks.

Answer 1

You are welcome to use ToStringBuilder from jakarta. It has 2 modes one requires adding all fields you need using API, other is reflection based:

@Override
public String toString() {
    return ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(this);
}