Re: Unable to Overload toString for Object

From:
Ojesh Dugar <ojesh.u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:59:29 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<21fd4c10-207a-4515-9308-99df55cebd60@googlegroups.com>
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:59:50 AM UTC+5:30, markspace wrote:

On 2/12/2014 8:58 PM, Ojesh Dugar wrote:

According to documentation, bugs- is an array of hashes that contains

information about the bugs with the valid ids. Each hash contains the

following items


It sounds to me like the first property, with a key "bugs" is an array,

probably of HashMap (or possibly just Map), which contains a the actual

bug information.

The chance that I'm going to mess something up here is increasing

because I'm not compiling this, but try this.

// create bug

    Object createResult = rpcClient.execute("Bug.search", new

Object[]{bugMap});

       //createResult.toString();

   HashMap bugs = (HashMap)createResult;

   for( Object key : bugs.keySet() ) {

     System.out.println( "Key "+key.getClass().getName()

                       + "= "+key

                       + ", value "+ bugs.get( key ).getClass().getName()

                       + "= "+ bugs.get( key )

                 );

     Object value = bugs.get( key );

     if( value instanceof Object[] ) {

       Object[] valueArray = (Object[])value;

       for( Object v : valueArray ) {

          System.out.println( "-- "+v.getClass().getName() );

       }

     } else System.out.println( "not an array!" );

   }

You should be able to run this and determine what to replace the

v.getClass().getName() part with; probably a cast to a Map. I don't

recall if collections normally override their to string -- they might,

though the result normally isn't very pretty.


Yeah, This worked out for me.
That was a great help. Thanks a lot.

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