Package eu.woolplatform.utils

Class DataFormatter

java.lang.Object

eu.woolplatform.utils.DataFormatter

public class DataFormatter
extends Object

This class can format maps, lists and primitives (boolean, number, string). The output can be use human-friendly formatting with new lines and indentation. And the output can be JSON or it can use Java toString(). If the output should be JSON, any object that is not a map, list or primitive, will be converted to a map first.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DataFormatter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	format(Object value, boolean human)	Returns a string representation of the specified value (map, list or primitive).
String	format(Object value, boolean human, boolean json)	Returns a string representation of the specified value (map, list or primitive).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DataFormatter

public DataFormatter()

Method Detail

format

public String format(Object value,
                     boolean human)

Returns a string representation of the specified value (map, list or primitive). If "human" is true, the returned string will have a friendly formatting, possibly spanning multiple lines.

The output of primitives will use Java toString(). See also format(value, human, json).

Parameters:

value - the value to format

human - true for friendly formatting, false for single-line formatting

Returns:

the string

format

public String format(Object value,
                     boolean human,
                     boolean json)

Returns a string representation of the specified value (map, list or primitive). If "human" is true, the returned string will have a friendly formatting, possibly spanning multiple lines.

Parameters:

value - the value to format

human - true for friendly formatting, false for single-line formatting

json - true if the output should be JSON, false if the output should use Java toString()

Returns:

the string