question: public String toShortString ( ) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder ( ) ; if ( xRoadInstance != null ) { sb . append ( xRoadInstance ) ; } for ( String part : getFieldsForStringFormat ( ) ) { if ( part != null ) { if ( sb . length ( ) > 0 ) { sb . append ( '/' ) ; } sb . append ( part ) ; } } return sb . toString ( ) ; }
target:  Returns short string representation of the identifier that is more suitable for user interface usage than output of the toString() method.