Comments on: Easy Java Bean toString() using BeanUtils

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:44:47 +0000

While I enjoyed this tip and implemented it originally, I came across a potential (but very likely) bug with using your original suggestion as it often causes a stackoverflow exception. Paul’s suggestion seems to be better suited. See http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/api/org/apache/commons/beanutils/BeanUtilsBean.html#describe%28java.lang.Object%29

Ivana — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:18:56 +0000

Very neat solution Paul, thank you!

Paul Wilton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:44:36 +0000

I think a much easier and better solution would be simply to use the Commons Lang ReflectionToStringBuilder class:
for example:

public String toString() {
return ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString(this, ToStringStyle.MULTI_LINE_STYLE);
}