Printing HashMap In Java

Question

I have a HashMap:

private HashMap example = new HashMap();

Now I would lik

Answer 1

If the map holds a collection as value, the other answers require additional effort to convert them as strings, such as Arrays.deepToString(value.toArray()) (if its a map of list values), etc.

I faced these issues quite often and came across the generic function to print all objects using ObjectMappers. This is quite handy at all the places, especially during experimenting things, and I would recommend you to choose this way.

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;

public static String convertObjectAsString(Object object) {
    String s = "";
    ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
    try {
        om.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
        s = om.writeValueAsString(object);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        log.error("error converting object to string - " + e);
    }
    return s;
}