Dumping a java object's properties

Question

Is there a library that will recursively dump/print an objects properties? I\'m looking for something similar to the console.dir() function in Firebug.

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Answer 1

this will print out all fields (including arrays of objects) of an object.

Fixed version of Ben Williams post from this thread

Note: this method uses recursion so If you have a very deep object graph you may get a stack-overflow (no pun intended ;) IF so you need to use the VM parameter -Xss10m. If your using eclipse put it in run>runconfiguration>augments (tab) VM augment box and press apply

import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public static String dump(Object o) {
    StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
    Class oClass = o.getClass();
     if (oClass.isArray()) {
         buffer.append("Array: ");
        buffer.append("[");
        for (int i = 0; i < Array.getLength(o); i++) {
            Object value = Array.get(o, i);
            if (value.getClass().isPrimitive() ||
                    value.getClass() == java.lang.Long.class ||
                    value.getClass() == java.lang.Integer.class ||
                    value.getClass() == java.lang.Boolean.class ||
                    value.getClass() == java.lang.String.class ||
                    value.getClass() == java.lang.Double.class ||
                    value.getClass() == java.lang.Short.class ||
                    value.getClass() == java.lang.Byte.class
                    ) {
                buffer.append(value);
                if(i != (Array.getLength(o)-1)) buffer.append(",");
            } else {
                buffer.append(dump(value));
             }
        }
        buffer.append("]\n");
    } else {
         buffer.append("Class: " + oClass.getName());
         buffer.append("{\n");
        while (oClass != null) {
            Field[] fields = oClass.getDeclaredFields();
            for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
                fields[i].setAccessible(true);
                buffer.append(fields[i].getName());
                buffer.append("=");
                try {
                    Object value = fields[i].get(o);
                    if (value != null) {
                        if (value.getClass().isPrimitive() ||
                                value.getClass() == java.lang.Long.class ||
                                value.getClass() == java.lang.String.class ||
                                value.getClass() == java.lang.Integer.class ||
                                value.getClass() == java.lang.Boolean.class ||
                                    value.getClass() == java.lang.Double.class ||
                                value.getClass() == java.lang.Short.class ||
                                value.getClass() == java.lang.Byte.class
                                ) {
                            buffer.append(value);
                        } else {
                            buffer.append(dump(value));
                        }
                    }
                } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                    buffer.append(e.getMessage());
                }
                buffer.append("\n");
            }
            oClass = oClass.getSuperclass();
        }
        buffer.append("}\n");
    }
    return buffer.toString();
}