Hi,
this is not in the 1.0.1 release, so I wasn't aware of it when I looked
at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api/
Thanks for pointing out. However, as I need to use a released version
(unfortunately there is no newer release yet), I'll stay with
String.valueOf() which does the job quite nicely.
In the ObjectUtils, clearifying the differences between
String.valueOf(Object obj)
ObjectUtils.toString(Object obj)
ObjectUtils.toString(Object obj, String default)
would be nice.
Regards
Henning
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 18:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Nope.
>
> ObjectUtils.toString(Object obj)
> null -> null, else obj.toString()
>
> ObjectUtils.toString(Object obj,String nullValue)
> null -> nullValue, else obj.toString()
>
> Stephen
>
> > from: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >ObjectUtils.toString()
> >
> > What? This might return [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my memory.
> >
> > I want to call toString() on arbitrary objects and avoid the NPE when I do
> > <foo>.toString().
> >
> > Regards
> > Henning
> >
> >
> >
> > >Stephen
> >
> > >> from: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >> as I was needing a method like this:
> > >>
> > >> /**
> > >> * Returns the toString() value of the passed
> > >> * object. If null is passed, return the String
> > >> * "null".
> > >> *
> > >> * @param obj The object to print out.
> > >> * @returns A String representation of the passed
> > >> * object.
> > >> */
> > >> public String safeToString(Object obj) {
> > >> if (obj == null) {
> > >> return "null";
> > >> }
> > >> return obj.toString();
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> for the gadzillionth time and we have
> > >>
> > >> public static String identityToString(Object object) {
> > >> if (object == null) {
> > >> return null;
> > >> }
> > >> return new StringBuffer()
> > >> .append(object.getClass().getName())
> > >> .append('@')
> > >> .append(Integer.toHexString(System.identityHashCode(object)))
> > >> .toString();
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> in ObjectUtils, wouldn't this safeToString() be a nice addition to the
> > >> ObjectUtils? Or do we already have something like this in the lang
> > >> somewhere?
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >> Henning
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