printing an object with reflection api (for debug purpose)

I am at work on a very very cold sunday morning.. then lets learn something in companionship of a cup of hot coffee in this empty office..
my aim is to print an objects attributes regardless of its type.. in other words, i do not want to write seperate debug statements for all my object types.. i want a static method written in java reflection api and use it everywhere.. by the way, i am only interested in printing methods that start with get...()..

good code samples here: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ALT/Reflection/

here is the code to do that:

public static void printObject(String className, Object classItself) {

try {

System.out.println("PRINTING-OBJ " + className);

Class c = Class.forName(className);

Field[] f = c.getFields();

for (int i = 0; i <>

System.out.println(f[i]);

}

Method[] m = c.getDeclaredMethods();

for (int i = 0; i <>

// System.out.println(m[i].getName());

if (m[i].getName().startsWith("get")) {

try {

System.out.println("METHOD: " + m[i].getName() + " : " + m[i].invoke(classItself, null));

} catch (Exception ex) {

// do nothing

}

}

}

System.out.println("END OF PRINTING-OBJ " + className);

} catch (Exception ex) {

// do nothing

}

}

a sample call:

Helper.printObject(Parameter.class.getCanonicalName(), parameter);




output:

PRINTING-OBJ .admin.Parameter

METHOD: getName : name

METHOD: getDescription : description

METHOD: getCode : -10117439

END OF PRINTING-OBJ admin.Parameter