Many classes contain methods that display the data in the object. Is there a convention for the names of methods that provide various levels of detail? For example, consider a class called Point containing floats for x and y coordinates of the point. One method might display "2.0, 3.0" and another might display "(x=2.0, y=3.0)". A more complicated class might have several formats.
The toString() method is usually used to create a human-readable string representation of the object, but the level of detail is up to the person overriding it. Anything beyond that is at the programmer's discretion. For example, for a detailed representation I usually use something like dump(). You could also create a method that takes an enum that defines granularity, similar to logging levels.
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