Jason Mehrens wrote:
Joe,
> * null safe toString(Object), returning "null" for a null argument
Doesn't String.valueOf do the same thing?
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#valueOf(java.lang.Object
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#valueOf%28java.lang.Object>)
Indeed it does! I'll replace the implementation with a call to
String.valueOf and update the javadoc accordingly. Thanks for spotting
this.
What about a toIdentityString(Object) instead? Some of the nice
properties of an identity string is that it is safe to
By toIdentityString, do you mean the String that would be returned by
toString if toString is not overridden?
-Joe
call from multiple threads even on objects that are not thread safe
(JComponent), won't deadlock if toString is synchronized (observed in
logging), and won't build run away strings (nCopies(Integer.MAX_VALUE,
"lookout").toString()).
Jason
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