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Gilles Sadowski commented on LANG-1249:
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According to the description, it's either a bug or a missing feature.
It doesn't hurt to keep this ticket open...
> Exclude Fields on ReflectionToStringBuilder doesn't work for inner objects
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>
> Key: LANG-1249
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1249
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: bharat
> Priority: Major
>
> Class Foo {
> String a;
> Bar bar;
> }
> Class Bar {
> String b;
> }
> Foo f = new Foo();
> ReflectionToStringBuilder builder = new ReflectionToStringBuilder(f, new
> RecursiveToStringStyle());
> builder.setExcludeFieldNames("bar"); // this works
> builder.setExcludeFieldNames("b"); // this doesn't work (It doesn't exclude
> this field. It only excludes top level fields of Class Foo (f in the example
> above)
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