Question

I was wondering what people put into their toString() methods in Java.

I have been adding a few to some new classes and was wondering if it should include the classname or not.

In the class ClassConfig I cant decide if I should have

@Override
public String toString() {
    return "ClassConfig:" + name; //frozen
}

or

@Override
public String toString() {
    return name; //frozen
}

Neil

Answer 1

This is really case to case problem. If your intention is to debug, then I guess including class name is much better.