Even beginning Java developers are aware of the utility of the Object.toString() method that is available to all instances of Java classes and can be overridden to provide useful details regarding ...

While languages like Ruby provide the pertinent information you need, why can't Java provide a decent, useable, toString() method right out of the box?

Nor should you write a toString method in most enum types (Item 34) because Java provides a perfectly good one for you. You should, however, write a toString method in any abstract class whose ...

Both our java and GraphQL schema enums have the same names, but unfortunately I'm dealing with legacy code and enums have overriden the .toString method, which was causing enum matching to fail.