Re: [Hibernate] writing the properties of a persistent object to a string

[Gavin K. <ga...@ap...>]

I prefer Anton's suggestion. There used to be a method like this on the
session interface A Long Time Ago but I got rid of it because I didn't think
it had anything to do with persistence. On the other hand,

sessionFactory.openDatabinder().toXML(foo);

does a really nice job of printing an object.....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton van Straaten" <an...@ap...>
To: "Brad Clow" <bra...@wo...>;
<hib...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Hibernate] writing the properties of a persistent object to a
string


> I would find this useful.  I rely on toString quite a bit.
>
> I assume that printToString could be added somewhere else, but would then
> require a session object as a parameter?  Or would that be very unnatural?
> Design niceties aside, that would work fine for me.  Would adding it to
the
> Hibernate class be any better from a reduced-interface-clutter
perspective?
>
> Anton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hib...@li...
> [mailto:hib...@li...]On Behalf Of Brad Clow
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:43 PM
> To: hib...@li...
> Subject: [Hibernate] writing the properties of a persistent object to a
> string
>
>
> i often add a toString method (that prints out the values of all
properties)
> to my persistent objects so that i can get detailed logging of an object's
> state when it is loaded, saved, etc.  i have just written a printToString
> method for the Session interface/SessionImpl class that does this
> dynamically, taking into account proxy's, lazy collections and
> PersistentEnum types, so i don't have to write & maintain the toString
> methods (for this purpose) anymore.  i know gavin would rather the Session
> interface didn't grow anymore :-), but i think this may be useful for
others
> to.
>
> comments?
>
> brad
>
>
>
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