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Question:

Java toString() method help?

OwenMM

Three answers:

the toString() method is a representative of your object. Let me show you an example:



public class NewTo

{

//varaibles

double x;

double y;



//contructor

public NewTo(double x, double y)

{

this.x = x;

this.y = y;

}



//methods

public String toString()

{

return x + "/" + y;

}





//Main method



public static void main(String[] args)

{

NewTo Java = new NewTo(5,2);

System.out.println(Java);

}

}

It really depends on the object's purpose as to the usefulness of a toString() method. If the object is data related, the toString() method would be a simple way to output the data as text, no matter what the input type is. This would be useful for user feedback or debugging/logging. For non-data type objects (i.e. a stream, database connection, recordset, etc...), a text dump could be useful for debugging.

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