I'd been banging my head on these logging entries for days. Our recently added audit logs had a frustrating phenomenon; these unrelated strings were ending up in the "object" field when we shouldn't have a value populated there at all.

Working with Spring, mind you, the class looked something like …

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One of my oh-so-favorite (cough) things to do lately in Java has been mapping one type of object to another with no particular transformation. Among these has been the act of taking a list and shifting its contents into a series of fields, depending on how many items are availble …

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