This method can be overridden to customize the String representation of the Object. Below is a programshowing the use of the Object’s Default toString java method.
class PointCoordinates {
private int x, y;
public PointCoordinates(int x, int y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
}
public int getX() {
return x;
}
public int getY() {
return y;
}
}
public class ToStringDemo {
public static void main(String args[]) {
PointCoordinates point = new PointCoordinates(10, 10);
// using the Default Object.toString() Method
System.out.println("Object toString() method : " + point);
// implicitly call toString() on object as part of string concatenation
String s = point + " testing";
System.out.println(s);
}
} |
Download ToStringDemo.java
When you run the ToStringDemo program, the output is:
Object toString() method : PointCoordinates@119c082
PointCoordinates@119c082 testing
In the above example when we try printing PointCoordinates object, it internally calls the Object’s toString() method as we have not overridden the java toString() method. Since out example has no toString method, the default one in Object is used. The format of the default toString method of the Object is as shown below.
Class Name, “@”, and the hex version of the object’s hashcode concatenated into a string.
The default hashCode method in Object is typically implemented by converting the memory address of theobject into an integer.
Below is an example shown of the same program by Overriding the default Object toString() method. The toString() method must be descriptive and should generally cover all the contents of the object.
class PointCoordinates {
private int x, y;
public PointCoordinates(int x, int y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
}
public int getX() {
return x;
}
public int getY() {
return y;
}
// Custom toString() Method.
public String toString() {
return "X=" + x + " " + "Y=" + y;
}
}
public class ToStringDemo2 {
public static void main(String args[]) {
PointCoordinates point = new PointCoordinates(10, 10);
System.out.println(point);
String s = point + " testing";
System.out.println(s);
}
} |
When you run the ToStringDemo2 program, the output is:
X=10 Y=10
X=10 Y=10 testing
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