[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-389) Property creation needs to update toString

[Richard Kennard (Commented) (JIRA)]

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Richard Kennard commented on FORGE-389:
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Perfect for me, thanks!
                
> Property creation needs to update toString
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FORGE-389
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-389
>             Project: Forge
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>            Reporter: Richard Kennard
>            Assignee: Lincoln Baxter III
>             Fix For: 1.0.0.Beta4
>
>
> There are a number of places in the UI (for example, as OPTIONS inside a SELECT box) that a textual representation of an entity's value is required. I'm open to how this should be done, but something like 'whenever a property is added to an entity, it is also added to the entity's toString() method' would suffice for my purposes.
> Bonus points for limiting it to 'only required fields' or 'only the first 5 fields' :)
> For example:
> public class Customer {
>    public String getFirstname() {...}
>    public void setFirstname( String firstname ) {...}
>    public String getSurname() {...}
>    public void setSurname( String surname ) {...}
>    public String toString() {
>       StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
>       builder.append( firstname );
>       builder.append( ' ' );
>       builder.append( surname );
>       return builder.toString()
>    }
> }
> Strictly speaking this could be managed by the JSF Converter's 'getAsString' method, but I think it would be better in the Entity class?

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