Print the contents of a Bundle to Logcat?
Is there an easy way to print the contents of a Bundle
to Logcat if you can't remember the names of all the keys (even being able to print just the key names would be cool)?
Solution 1:
Bundle#keySet() should work.
for (String key: bundle.keySet())
{
Log.d ("myApplication", key + " is a key in the bundle");
}
And if you want to get the Object, you can use Bundle#get(String key)
(which is also in the same documentation I linked at the top of my answer). However, keep in mind using the generic get()
call:
- You're working with Object. If you're simply printing to a Log,
toString()
will be invoked and all will be fine. However, if you actually want to use the key's pair, you need to doinstanceof
checks to avoid calling the wrong method. - Since toString will be invoked, if you have a special Object (eg ArrayLists, or special Serializable/Parcelable extras) you're most likely not going to get anything useful from the printout.
Solution 2:
You can get more specific by printing the mapped value as follows:
for (String key : bundle.keySet())
{
Log.d("Bundle Debug", key + " = \"" + bundle.get(key) + "\"");
}
Solution 3:
Bundle-to-string converter:
public static String bundle2string(Bundle bundle) {
if (bundle == null) {
return null;
}
String string = "Bundle{";
for (String key : bundle.keySet()) {
string += " " + key + " => " + bundle.get(key) + ";";
}
string += " }Bundle";
return string;
}
Example usage:
Log.d(TAG,"details="+bundle2string(details));
and output:
details=Bundle{ RESPONSE_CODE => 5; }Bundle
Note that the arrows =>
and semicolons ;
let you mention spaces in the keys and values. One space before the arrow, one space after the arrow, no space before the semi-colon, one space after the semi-colon, one space after {
and one space before }
, and all other spaces are there because they are in the keys or values.
Solution 4:
Realize that this isn't answering the question exactly, but I see allot of developers trying to dump the contents to logcat/console because they are not aware that they can set up in Android Studio debugger to display customized object rendering at debug time, when you hit a break point. And in the case of Bundle, you can take the type of code shown in the other answers here, and apply that as a custom renderer, so that you don't need to pipe the dump to logcat and/or the console.
(These instructions are from Android Studio 3.1.3 (June 2018) ...
- Select the "File" and then the "Settings" menu option/suboption.
- In the 'Settings' dialog, on the left side, drill-down and select "Build, Execution, Deployment", "Debugger", "Data Views", "Java Type Renderers".
- Right side of the dialog, where it says "Renderer name" enter a name you wish to identify with the renderer you are creating.
- Right side of the dialog, where it says "Apply renderer to objects of type", enter 'android.os.Bundle'.
- Right side of the dialog, under the "When rendering a node" section, select the "Use following expression:" radio button.
- In the text field below that, type in the following ...
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); for (String key : ((android.os.Bundle)this).keySet()) { Object value = ((android.os.Bundle)this).get(key); builder.append("["); builder.append(key); builder.append("]=["); builder.append(value); builder.append("]("); builder.append((value != null) ? value.getClass().getSimpleName() : "null"); builder.append("), "); } return builder.toString();
- Press 'Apply'/'OK' button.
Now, when you run your app, and you hit a breakpoint that shows a variable that is of type android.os.Bundle, you'll see the output generated from the above code, on the variables section of the debugger window.
I'll also include a screenshot, showing what I described above ...
Solution 5:
Simple Bundle to String implementation in Kotlin:
val bundleToString = bundle.keySet()
.joinToString(", ", "{", "}") { key ->
"$key=${bundle[key]}"
}
Example of result {id=3, name="Jhon"}