ObjectStreamClass toString() in Java

toString(): This method is available in the java.io.ObjectStreamClass class of Java.

Syntax:

String java.io.ObjectStreamClass.toString()

This method returns a string describing this ObjectStreamClass.

Parameters: NA

Returns: a string representation of the object.

Exceptions: NA

Approach

Java

import java.io.ObjectStreamClass;

public class ObjectStreamClasstoString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ObjectStreamClass objectStreamClass =
                   ObjectStreamClass.lookup(String.class);

        System.out.println(objectStreamClass.toString());
    }
}

Output:

java.lang.String: static final long serialVersionUID = -6849794470754667710L;

Some more methods of ObjectStreamClass

forClass(): This method returns the class to the local VM that this version is mapped to.

getField(String): This method gets the field of this class by name.

getFields(): This method returns an array of the fields of this serializable class.

getName(): This method returns the name of the class described by this descriptor.

getSerialVersionUID(): This method returns the serialVersionUID for this class.

lookup(Class): This method creates an ObjectStreamClass instance if one does not exist yet for the class.

lookupAny(Class): This method returns the descriptor for any class, regardless of whether it implements Serializable.