What are the shortcut to Auto-generating toString Method in Eclipse?

Question

Is it good or bad practice auto-generating toString methods for some simple classes?

I was thinking of generating something like below where it takes th

Answer 1

Be clear when adding toString() as to the audience of the generated text. Some frameworks use the toString() method to generate end user visible text (e.g. certain web frameworks), whereas many people use toString() methods to generate debugging / developer information. Either way, make sure that you have enough uniqueness in the toString implementation to satisfy your requirements.

The default JDK implementation of toString() generates developer info, so that's usually the pattern I recommend if possible, but if you are working on a project with a different idea / expectation you could wind up confused...