strings - Unintended Recursion

 

// strings/InfiniteRecursion.java
// (c)2017 MindView LLC: see Copyright.txt
// We make no guarantees that this code is fit for any purpose.
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// Accidental recursion
// {ThrowsException}
// {VisuallyInspectOutput} Throws very long exception

import java.util.*;
import java.util.stream.*;

public class InfiniteRecursion {
  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return " InfiniteRecursion address: " + this + "\n";// Throws very long exception
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Stream.generate(InfiniteRecursion::new).limit(10).forEach(System.out::println);
  }
}

the exception example is 

…………………………………………
        at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:131)
        at InfiniteRecursion.toString(InfiniteRecursion.java:15)
        at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2994)
        at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:131)
        at InfiniteRecursion.toString(InfiniteRecursion.java:15)

        at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2994)
        at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:131)
        at InfiniteRecursion.toString(InfiniteRecursion.java:15)

The solution is using super.toString() instead of this.

then it outputs

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@1b28cdfa

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@eed1f14

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@7229724f

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@4c873330

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@119d7047

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@776ec8df


 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@4eec7777

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@3b07d329

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@41629346

 InfiniteRecursion address: InfiniteRecursion@404b9385

 

references:

1. On Java 8 - Bruce Eckel

2. https://github.com/wangbingfeng/OnJava8-Examples/blob/master/strings/InfiniteRecursion.java