What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7?

[David Holmes - Sun Microsystems]

Paul,

Paul Benedict said the following on 10/07/09 14:44:
> If you want Objects.toString() to provide value, consider mimicking
> the functionality from Apache Commons:
> 
> http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/lang/ObjectUtils.html
> 
> My biggest complaint about String.valueOf(Object) is that it will
> actually return "null" for null objects. I can't stand that. If I have
> no data, I don't want any printable data back. While my preference
> might be too narrow for the JDK, the second overloaded version of
> ObjectUtils#toString(String, String) seems like a winner to me. Allow
> a default String to be provided when it is null:

I can see this might be useful ...

> public static String toString(Object o, String defaultStr) {
>     return (o != null) ? : String.valueOf(o) : defaultStr;
> }

but the implementation would just need to be:

       return o != null ? o.toString() : defaultStr;

Cheers,
David
> 
> Paul