the shortest toString as ehcache key
<p>I used ehcache with ehcache-spring-annotations.
The first time, we choose HashCodeCacheKeyGenerator. It was pretty good.
but 1 month ago we found "key duplication".
So we replaced HashCodeCacheKeyGenerator with StringCacheKeyGenerator.
"key duplication" issue gone, but huge toString(using apache ToStringBuilder) key allocated heap memory(about 200M)
Because parameter object(value object) have huge field.</p>

<p>I made very very simple tostring like below</p>

<pre><code>VerySimpleToStringStyle$Ta,,,,,1|2|3,1|2|3,a|b|c,true|false,64|65|66,1.0|2.0|3.0,1.0|2.0|3.0,,,,,,,1|2|3,[a, b, c],{b=2, c=3, a=1},a|1|false|{b=2, c=3, a=1}|[a, b, c],A,[b, c, a],,,
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<p>As you can see, no field name and no value if the value is null.
I hope to use SHA256, MD5 hashing about the original toString, but coworker and i worry about "key duplicated".</p>

<p>Any idea shortest toString method of huge value object as ehcache key?</p>

<pre><code>import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringStyle;

public class VerySimpleToStringStyle extends ToStringStyle {
private static final long serialVersionUID = -8388711512639784062L;

public VerySimpleToStringStyle() {
     super();
     this.setUseClassName(true);
     this.setUseIdentityHashCode(false);
     this.setUseFieldNames(false);
     this.setContentStart("");
     this.setContentEnd("");
     this.setNullText("");

     this.setFieldSeparatorAtStart(false);
     this.setFieldSeparator(",");
     this.setFieldSeparatorAtEnd(false);

     this.setArrayStart("");
     this.setArraySeparator("|");
     this.setArrayEnd("");

}

private static class T {
    private String a = "a";
    private String a1 = null;
    private String cc1;
    private String cc2;
    private String cc3;
    private int[] i = new int[] {1, 2, 3};
    private long[] l = new long[] {1, 2, 3};
    private char[] c = new char[] {'a', 'b', 'c'};
    private boolean[] bl = new boolean[] {true, false};
    private byte[] b = new byte[] {64, 65, 66};
    private float[] f = new float[] {1, 2, 3};
    private double[] d = new double[] {1, 2, 3};
    private String bb1;
    private String bb2;
    private String bb3;
    private String bb4;
    private String bb5;
    private String bb6;
    private short[] s = new short[] {1, 2, 3};
    private List&lt;String&gt; list = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
    private Map&lt;String, String&gt; m = new HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;();
    private Object[] o = new Object[] {"a", 1, false, m, list};
    private enum E {A, B, C};
    private E e = E.A;
    private static String x = "x";
    private transient String y = "y";
    private Set&lt;String&gt; set = new HashSet&lt;String&gt;();
    private String aa1;
    private String aa2;
    private String aa3;

    public T() {
        this.list.add("a");
        this.list.add("b");
        this.list.add("c");

        this.m.put("a", "1");
        this.m.put("b", "2");
        this.m.put("c", "3");

        this.set.add("a");
        this.set.add("b");
        this.set.add("c");
    }
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(new T(), new VerySimpleToStringStyle()));
}
}
</code></pre>
