/** * Computes the display string for any value. * * @param t the value to print * @return the formatted string */ public static <T> String print(T t) { if (t == null) { return ""; } if (conversion.canConvert(t.getClass(), String.class)) { return conversion.convert(t, String.class); } else { return t.toString(); } }
/** * Computes the display string for any value, for a specific type. * * @param desc the field descriptor - custom formatters are extracted from this descriptor. * @param t the value to print * @return the formatted string */ public static <T> String print(TypeDescriptor desc, T t) { if (t == null) { return ""; } if (desc != null && conversion.canConvert(desc, TypeDescriptor.valueOf(String.class))) { return (String) conversion.convert(t, desc, TypeDescriptor.valueOf(String.class)); } else if (conversion.canConvert(t.getClass(), String.class)) { return conversion.convert(t, String.class); } else { return t.toString(); } }