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Nathan Marz commented on THRIFT-119:
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I think the key here is that we only skip *optional* nulls. Obviously, we
always want to see the value of every required field. We don't lose any
information by not printing out the optional non-set fields - if it's not
printed in the list, then the application developer knows that value was not
set. I would propose that we don't overload toString at all and make *not*
printing optional nulls the only behavior - this will avoid the complexity of
maintaining a function that needs to deal with so many special cases (aka,
lists, maps, sets, and whatever data structures are added in the future).
> Improved toString for Java Structs
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> Key: THRIFT-119
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-119
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Compiler (Java)
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Assignee: Bryan Duxbury
> Attachments: thrift-119.patch
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