Advantage Provide meaningful of an object info to client. Disadvantage Constrain the ability of changing the toString() implementation since this will affect the client who use this formatted string as persistence. Note Whether or not you decide to s…

providing a good toString implementation makes your class much more pleasant to use. It is recommended that all subclasses override this method. When practical, the toString method should return all of the interesting information contained in the obj…

Failure to do so will result in a violation of the general contract for Object.hashCode, which will prevent your class from functioning properly in conjunction with all hash-based collections, including HashMap, HashSet, and Hashtable. Simple recipe…

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Part 57 Why should you override ToString Method sometimes you can override ToString method like that: namepace Example public class MainClass { Customer C = new Customer(); C.firstName = "Lin"; C.lastName="Gester"; Console.Write(C.ToSt…

Chapter 3 Methods Common to All Objects Item 8: Obey the general contract when overriding equals 以下几种情况不需要你override这个类的equals方法:这个类的每一个实例天生就是unique的,比如Thread:这个类的父类已经override了equals,并已经足够:这是个private或者package的class,你确定equals永远不会被调用,保险起见这时候你其实可以overrid…

Tips <Effective Java, Third Edition>一书英文版已经出版,这本书的第二版想必很多人都读过,号称Java四大名著之一,不过第二版2009年出版,到现在已经将近8年的时间,但随着Java 6,7,8,甚至9的发布,Java语言发生了深刻的变化. 在这里第一时间翻译成中文版.供大家学习分享之用. 10. 重写equals方法时遵守通用约定 虽然Object是一个具体的类,但它主要是为继承而设计的.它的所有非 final方法(equals.hashCode.toStr…

Tips <Effective Java, Third Edition>一书英文版已经出版,这本书的第二版想必很多人都读过,号称Java四大名著之一,不过第二版2009年出版,到现在已经将近8年的时间,但随着Java 6,7,8,甚至9的发布,Java语言发生了深刻的变化. 在这里第一时间翻译成中文版.供大家学习分享之用. 12. 始终重写 toString 方法 虽然Object类提供了toString方法的实现,但它返回的字符串通常不是你的类的用户想要看到的. 它由类名后跟一个"…

Tips <Effective Java, Third Edition>一书英文版已经出版,这本书的第二版想必很多人都读过,号称Java四大名著之一,不过第二版2009年出版,到现在已经将近8年的时间,但随着Java 6,7,8,甚至9的发布,Java语言发生了深刻的变化. 在这里第一时间翻译成中文版.供大家学习分享之用. 40. 始终使用Override注解 Java类库包含几个注解类型.对于典型的程序员来说,最重要的是@Override.此注解只能在方法声明上使用,它表明带此注解的方法声明…

Principle Use the Override annotation on every method declaration that you believe to override a superclass declaration. // Can you spot the bug? public class Bigram { private final char first; private final char second; public Bigram(char first, cha…