Retrieving string from clipboard in Java

Question

I am trying to get some text from the clipboard using this method, but it throws an exception into the string instead of the text.

Am I just doing it wrong or something?

Transferable t = cb.getContents(null);
String begin = t.toString();
System.out.println("Successfully fetched:");
System.out.println(begin);

Throws this error:

sun.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardTransferable@6d03e736

Answer 1

Try this code snippet which attempts to retrieve a String from the System clipboard:

String result = "";
Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
Transferable contents = clipboard.getContents(null);
boolean hasStringText = (contents != null) && contents.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
if (hasStringText) {
    try {
        result = (String)contents.getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
    } catch (UnsupportedFlavorException | IOException ex) {
        System.out.println(ex); ex.printStackTrace();
}