Re: Is there a way to provide a default toString() to an interface?

[John Rose]

On Mar 12, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Wang Weijun <weijun.w...@oracle.com> wrote:

> I do not want to rename it to getString() and let all child classes call it 
> in their toString().


It is probably best to define a *static* method to hold the default 
implementation, so that the only candidate for overriding is toString itself.

See MethodHandleInfo and InfoFromMemberName (in java.lang.invoke) for one 
example of this pattern.

— John