Guava toString() method generator for IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA comes bundled with toString() plugin. If you check the plugins in Settings, you should find GenerateToString plugin, which generates toString() method with options for String concat, StringBuffer, StringBuilder and ToStringBuilder (of Apache Commons) for generating this method.

Google Guava has even better helper method for generating toString() method for a JavaBean or POJO, which is both clutter free and has a very consistent format; in the form of Objects.toStringHelper(this). It looks more elegant than any of the above solutions, actually. Also, as I make it a point to use Google Guava in all my projects, I have defined the following template in my toString() method generator settings in IntelliJ IDEA.

Follow the steps mentioned below for adding this template to your IntelliJ IDEA [picked up from SO]:

• Go inside a Java Class in an editor in IntelliJ IDEA
• Hit Alt + Insert to popup the "Generate" menu
• Choose toString()
• Click the "Settings" button
• Go to the "Templates" tab
• Create a new template named "Guava toString gen" (or any name you prefer)
• Add the above code to the template

Yes, its that simple!!  After configuring the above template, whenever you want to generate a toString() method for a Class, IntelliJ IDEA generates toString() using Guava template you have added just now.

Now, go ahead and give this a try and also check the other method omitNullValues() which might be useful in some scenarios.

Also, as a bonus tip, Guava's Objects class also has 2 awesome helper methods which aide in writing readable equals() and hashcode() methods. You should try them too.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

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Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

IntelliJ IDEA Plugins

In continuation to my other post on IntelliJ IDEA, here are the plugins I am using currently.

Please check back after sometime, I will keep this list up-to-date with all the interesting plugins I come across.

For a complete list of plugins available in IntelliJ IDEA, please check this link. As of today, there are 865 plugins available for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition and 819 for IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

Performance Tuning of IntelliJ IDEA startup options

IntelliJ IDEA is my favorite IDE for my day-to-day work.

I do moonlight with Eclipse as well from time-to-time, but the sheer speed and power of IntelliJ pulls me back to IDEA every time.

I have found the following tuning parameters to be very useful for fast loading, caching, etc for IDE to function smoothly:

If you are using Windows 64-bit, please add the above config in idea64.exe.vmoptions file and if its 32-bit, please add these tuning parms to idea.exe.vmoptions present in <<IDEA_INSTALLED_LOCATION>>/bin folder.

Also, just in case if you are not aware, on a 64 bit machine, if you want to launch IntelliJ IDEA in 64 bit mode, you need to launch idea64.exe and not idea.exe. For this, ensure you have IDEA_JDK and IDEA_JDK_64 environment variables pointing to your 64 bit Java Installation folder.

Finally, the above IDEA Tuning parameters can also be used for an IntelliJ IDEA installed on a Linux machine as well.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.