Java toString() using reflection?

Question

I was writing a toString() for a class in Java the other day by manually writing out each element of the class to a String and it occurred to me that using reflection it mig

Answer 1

Apache commons-lang ReflectionToStringBuilder does this for you.

import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.ReflectionToStringBuilder

// your code goes here

public String toString() {
   return ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString(this);
}