> The builders look good. I was able to subclass ToStringStyle to get > customized formatting, which was my chief concern. I do think the > javadocs for the ToStringBuilder and associated classes should be > expanded to make it easier to implement custom formatting, without > someone needing to wade through the code to figure it out (though the > wading is not too difficult. > > I have one question about ToStringStyle. I'm wondering why it contains > protected fields that can be accessed directly by subclasses, as opposed > to making them private with accessor methods.
The problem is that I need immutable subclasses of ToStringStyle. I have however, changed ToStringStyle to have protected getters and setters with private fields. StandardToStringStyle now just makes the protected methods public. This provides stronger protection for ToStringStyle. Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
