Question

Is there any way in which I can automatically convert a Custom Class Object into a human readable string?

e.g. consider the following class:

class Person {
    String Name;
    int Salary;
    ...
}

Person p = new Person();
p.setName("Tony");
p.setSalary(1000);

I need to get something like:

Person: Name="Tony", Salary=1000

Answer 1

Importing Commons Lang you could use ToStringBuilder

Check method reflectionToString(java.lang.Object), this will create automatically the representation you are expecting.

This code:

Person p = new Person();
p.setName("Tony");
p.setSalary(1000);

System.out.println(ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(p));

results this string:

Person@64578ceb[Name=Tony,Salary=1000]