[THRIFT-113] to-string methods should omit optional null fields from output

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
• Created: 19/Aug/08 16:12
• Updated: 09/Jun/11 20:52
• Resolved: 09/Jun/11 20:52

Description

We have structs with a lot of optional fields, and from a debugging standpoint, when we print out such structs, all the null optional fields pollute the printout with an enormous amount of noise. I think it would be pretty handy if optional fields that were null were just omitted from the print out entirely.