Package ubic.basecode.util

Class PrettyPrinter

java.lang.Object

ubic.basecode.util.PrettyPrinter

public class PrettyPrinter
extends Object

Very simple class to produce String versions of beans and other objects.

For beans, the entire hierarchy of associations for each object is printed in a tree-like format. This is primarily used for testing.

Author:

pavlidis

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	print(Collection<String> packages, Object object)	Pretty-print a single bean.
static String	print(Collection<String> packages, Object[] objects)	Print out a collection of objects in a relatively pleasing format.
static String	print(Collection<String> packages, Collection<Object> beans)	Print out a collection of beans in a relatively pleasing format.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

print

public static String print(Collection<String> packages,
                           Collection<Object> beans)

Print out a collection of beans in a relatively pleasing format.

Parameters:

packages - collection of Strings for inclusion of classes for printing. E.g. "ubic.gemma" would print all classes in the ubic.gemma package (including subpackages). If empty, everything gets printed.

beans - Collection of beans.

Returns:

String representing the objects.

print

public static String print(Collection<String> packages,
                           Object object)

Pretty-print a single bean. Beans that are not part of this project are ignored.

Parameters:

packages - collection of Strings for inclusion of classes for printing. E.g. "ubic.gemma" would print all classes in the ubic.gemma package (including subpackages). If empty, everything gets printed.

object -

Returns:

String representing the object.

print

public static String print(Collection<String> packages,
                           Object[] objects)

Print out a collection of objects in a relatively pleasing format.

Parameters:

packages - collection of Strings for inclusion of classes for printing. E.g. "ubic.gemma" would print all classes in the ubic.gemma package (including subpackages). If empty, everything gets printed.

beans - Collection of beans.

Returns:

String representing the objects.