com.google.api.client.util

Class Objects

java.lang.Object

com.google.api.client.util.Objects

public final class Objects
extends Object

Helper functions that can operate on any Object.

Since:

1.14

Author:

Yaniv Inbar

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	Objects.ToStringHelper Support class for toStringHelper(java.lang.Object).

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static boolean	equal(Object a, Object b) Determines whether two possibly-null objects are equal.
static Objects.ToStringHelper	toStringHelper(Object self) Creates an instance of Objects.ToStringHelper.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

equal

public static boolean equal(Object a,
                            Object b)

Determines whether two possibly-null objects are equal. Returns:

• true if a and b are both null.
• true if a and b are both non-null and they are equal according to Object.equals(Object).
• false in all other situations.

This assumes that any non-null objects passed to this function conform to the equals() contract.

toStringHelper

public static Objects.ToStringHelper toStringHelper(Object self)

Creates an instance of Objects.ToStringHelper.

This is helpful for implementing Object.toString(). Specification by example:

 // Returns "ClassName{}"
 Objects.toStringHelper(this)
 .toString();

 // Returns "ClassName{x=1}"
 Objects.toStringHelper(this)
 .add("x", 1)
 .toString();

 // Returns "MyObject{x=1}"
 Objects.toStringHelper("MyObject")
 .add("x", 1)
 .toString();

 // Returns "ClassName{x=1, y=foo}"
 Objects.toStringHelper(this)
 .add("x", 1)
 .add("y", "foo")
 .toString();

 // Returns "ClassName{x=1}"
 Objects.toStringHelper(this)
 .omitNullValues()
 .add("x", 1)
 .add("y", null)
 .toString();
 

Parameters:

self - the object to generate the string for (typically this), used only for its class name