How can I support println in a class?

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You can print any Object using System.out.println(Object). This overloaded version of println will print out toString representation of your object. If you want to customize what will be printed out, you must override the Object#toString() method, for example:

public class A {
    private String foo;

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        // When you print out instance of A, value of its foo
        // field will be printed out
        return foo;
    }
}

If you don’t override the Object#toString() method, default implementation from Object class will be used, which has this form (class name and the hexidecimal representation of the instance hash code):

public String toString() {
    return getClass().getName() + "@" + Integer.toHexString(hashCode());
}

Bonus: if you need to create toString() implementation from multiple fields, there are tools to make it easier. For instance ToStringBuilder from Commons Lang. Or some Java IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA even offer to generate toString for you based on the class’ fields.

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