toString plugin recommendation if not already available...

I agree. I have been doing this manually.

Rick wrote:

I looked over the settings and didn't see this an option..

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What I'd love is an option when the toString method is generated that it also appends a super.toString() to the end (obviously if the class is a subclass).

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It's not a big deal to manually add this to the end of the line, but it becomes annoying when you are chaning properties frequently and having the toString overwrite your previous one.

This used to be in one of the templates but disappeared in one of the versions. I think some velocity magic could bring it back if you override the built in templates.

Yes I think it can be done entirely in the velocity template.

Basically you have several methods on the context you can use in a if branch.
You'll have to lookup the plugin documentation (blue link in settings).

I had a computer crash and is now only on a new computer that I'll have to setup before I can look into it.

Something the like:

#if ($hasSuperClass())
+ super.toString()
#end


But I'll look into this when I am upgrading the plugin in this weekend. One of the new eap builds broke it.

/Claus, author of the plugin

Okay I got it working with the super.toString(). IDEA changed the plugin central so I'll have to wait for them to confirm me as the author before I can upload a new version.

I'll post the template that has super.toString() support here:

 0 )
#set ( $i = 0 )
    return "$classname{" +
#foreach( $member in $members )
#if ( $i == 0 )
    "##
#else
    ", ##
#end
#if ( $member.objectArray )
$member.name=" + ($member.accessor == null ? null : Arrays.asList($member.accessor)) +
#elseif ( $member.string )
$member.name='" + $member.accessor + '\'' +
#else
$member.name=" + $member.accessor +
#end
#set ( $i = $i + 1 )
#end
   #if ( $class.hasSuper )
   "} " + super.toString();
   #else
   '}';
   #end
#else
   #if ( $class.hasSuper )
   return "$classname{} " + super.toString();
   #else
   return "$classname{}";
   #end
#end
}
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Works great! Thanks a lot.