Pretty-print a Map in Java

Question

I am looking for a nice way to pretty-print a Map.

map.toString() gives me: {key1=value1, key2=value2, key3=value3}

I

Answer 1

I prefer to convert the map to a JSON string it is:

• a standard
• human readable
• supported in editors like Sublime, VS Code, with syntax highlighting, formatting and section hide/show
• supports JPath so editors can report exactly which part of the object you have navigated to

• supports nested complex types within the object

  import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
  
  public static String getAsFormattedJsonString(Object object)
  {
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
      try
      {
          return mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(object);
      }
      catch (JsonProcessingException e)
      {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
      return "";
  }