How to create toString() method in Java?

In this post, I am sharing several ways of creating toString method in Java. The toString() method returns a string representation of the object. Before we move on, there are a few questions that you should answer first. The main question would be whether a custom toString() implementation is really needed or we can use the default Java Object.toString() one. Another one would be about the best format of the string representation of the object.

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