toString method

String toString()

A string representation of this object.

Some classes have a default textual representation, often paired with a static parse function (like int.parse). These classes will provide the textual representation as their string representation.

Other classes have no meaningful textual representation that a program will care about. Such classes will typically override toString to provide useful information when inspecting the object, mainly for debugging or logging.

Implementation

String toString() {
  var buffer = StringBuffer();
  buffer.write(name);
  buffer.writeCharCode($colon);

  if (value != null) {
    if (!isCustomProperty) buffer.writeCharCode($space);
    buffer.write("$value");
  }

  if (children case var children?) {
    return "$buffer {${children.join(" ")}}";
  } else {
    return "$buffer;";
  }
}