Print all values in a value object [closed]

Question

I have to debug an issue which requires me to print all the values of a Value Object that is returned by a web service call. The Value object is a complex object in the sense, it has another object as its member which in turn has another object.

Printing all the values by using get methods is cumbersome. So I was wondering if there is a way to break down the value object by any way to get to a primitive level like String or int or Date and print them all using one API?

I had a look at the below question but my prob is that I don't have access to the source code of the value object. The sources are in obfuscated jar.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2413001/how-to-print-values-of-an-object-in-java

Answer 1

You are looking for one of the Apache Commons utilites.

• BeanUtils.describe()
• ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString()

These do slightly different things depending on what you want to do with it.

Answer 2

You can use recursion to discover subfields structure

public static void dump(Object o){
    Field[] fields = ReflectUtils.getFields(o.getClass());
    try{
        for(Field field : fields){
            field.setAccessible(true);
            Object value = field.get(o);
            System.out.println(field.getName() + "=" + field.get(o));
        }
    }catch(Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}