toString method

@override String toString({ bool doubleQuotes = true, bool encodeCharacterEntities = true, String encodeCharacters = '&<>"\'', })

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

@override
String toString({
  bool doubleQuotes = true,
  bool encodeCharacterEntities = true,
  String encodeCharacters = '&<>"\'',
}) {
  final quotationMark = (doubleQuotes) ? '"' : '\'';
  var value = this.value;
  if (encodeCharacterEntities) {
    value = HtmlCharacterEntities.encode(value, checkAmpsForEntities: true);
  }
  value = quotationMark + value + quotationMark;
  return '$name=$value';
}