Question

I am having a Map of type HashMap.

I am trying to iterate over the map and for every entry, for which the boolean flag is set to true, I am trying to print the corresponding key value.

I am able to achieve this. However, instead of printing the String “key” values, it prints String objects. I tried casting it, using the .toString() function. Nothing solved it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,S.

Answer 1

Your followup suggests that the values in your Map are not of type String and are not of a type that has overridden toString, which is why, when you call toString, you get a value like “com.f5.lunaui.emproto.reports.Device_Sri@334003”.

In Device_Sri, you should override the toString method to return the String you want:

@Override
public String toString() {
    return "em_device90-36";
}

Of course, you’ll probably want to calculate the value “em_device90-36” from the fields of the Device_Sri class.