shorter way to print the contents of an array?

[carpeliam]

I have an object that needs printing, but I get it cast as "Object". The following is the only way I know how to return a String representation of this:

    private String getValueAsArrayString() {
        assert value.getClass().isArray();
        if (value instanceof boolean[])
            return Arrays.toString((boolean[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof byte[])
            return Arrays.toString((byte[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof char[])
            return Arrays.toString((char[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof double[])
            return Arrays.toString((double[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof float[])
            return Arrays.toString((float[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof int[])
            return Arrays.toString((int[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof long[])
            return Arrays.toString((long[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof short[])
            return Arrays.toString((short[]) value);
        else if (value instanceof Object[])
            return Arrays.deepToString((Object[]) value);
        else
            throw new AssertionError("unknown type: " + value.getClass());
    }

is there a better way? did I forget anything?

Liam Morley
lmorley@wpi.edu
"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."

 

[carpeliam]

I just noticed that Arrays.toString() only works in jdk1.5. Which means, to do this in 1.4, I'd have to still do an instanceof, as well as a cast, and then iterate through the array- there HAS to be a better way. <p>Liam Morley<br><A HREF="mailto:"></A><br>&quot;light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;

 

[carpeliam]

solved.<BR><BR><DIV id="code"><h4>CODE</h4><div class="body">import java.lang.reflect.Array;<BR>for (int i = 0; i &lt; Array.getLength(value); i++)<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;System.out.println(Array.get(value, i));</DIV></DIV> <p>Liam Morley<br><A HREF="mailto:"></A><br>&quot;light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;