Is there a way to provide a default toString() to an interface?
Wang Weijun
weijun.wang at oracle.com
Wed Mar 12 07:45:33 UTC 2014
Hi All
I have an interface that wraps an integer, like this
interface Wrapper {
int getX();
}
Why cannot I add a default toString method
default String toString() {
return "This is " + getX();
}
The error is
error: default method toString in interface DSAPublicKey overrides a member of java.lang.Object
default String toString() {
Is there any other way to do it? I do not want to rename it to getString() and let all child classes call it in their toString().
Thanks
Max
P.S. security-dev@ guys, I want to move toString() back to {DSA|RSA|EC}PublicKey so that we get the same strings for SunPKCS11 and SunJCE.
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