SetEqualityConstraints

Provides an implicit method that loosens the equality constraint defined by TypeCheckedTripleEquals or ConversionCheckedTripleEquals for Scala Sets to one that more closely matches Scala's approach to Set equality.

Scala's approach to Set equality is that if both objects being compared are Sets, the elements are compared to determine equality. This means you could compare an immutable TreeSet and a mutable HashSet for equality, for instance, and get true so long as the two Sets contained the same elements in the same order. Here's an example:

scala> import scala.collection.immutable.TreeSet
import scala.collection.immutable.TreeSet

scala> import scala.collection.mutable.HashSet
import scala.collection.mutable.HashSet

scala> TreeSet(1, 2) == HashSet(1, 2)
res0: Boolean = true

Such a comparison would not, however, compile if you used === under either TypeCheckedTripleEquals or ConversionCheckedTripleEquals, because TreeSet and HashSet are not in a subtype/supertype relationship, nor does an implicit conversion by default exist between them:

scala> import org.scalactic._
import org.scalactic._

scala> import TypeCheckedTripleEquals._
import TypeCheckedTripleEquals._

scala> TreeSet(1, 2) === HashSet(1, 2)
<console>:16: error: types scala.collection.immutable.TreeSet[Int] and
  scala.collection.mutable.HashSet[Int] do not adhere to the equality constraint selected for
  the === and !== operators; the missing implicit parameter is of type
  org.scalactic.EqualityConstraint[scala.collection.immutable.TreeSet[Int],
  scala.collection.mutable.HashSet[Int]]
              TreeSet(1, 2) === HashSet(1, 2)
                            ^

If you mix or import the implicit conversion provided by SetEqualityConstraint, however, the comparison will be allowed:

scala> import SetEqualityConstraints._
import SetEqualityConstraints._

scala> TreeSet(1, 2) === HashSet(1, 2)
res2: Boolean = true

The equality constraint provided by this trait requires that both left and right sides are subclasses of scala.collection.GenSet and that an EqualityConstraint can be found for the element types. In the example above, both the TreeSet and HashSet are subclasses of scala.collection.GenSet, and the regular TypeCheckedTripleEquals provides equality constraints for the element types, both of which are Int. By contrast, this trait would not allow a TreeSet[Int] to be compared against a HashSet[java.util.Date], because no equality constraint will exist between the element types Int and Date:

scala> import java.util.Date
import java.util.Date

scala> TreeSet(1, 2) === HashSet(new Date, new Date)
<console>:20: error: types scala.collection.immutable.TreeSet[Int] and
  scala.collection.mutable.HashSet[java.util.Date] do not adhere to the equality constraint selected for
  the === and !== operators; the missing implicit parameter is of type
  org.scalactic.EqualityConstraint[scala.collection.immutable.TreeSet[Int],
  scala.collection.mutable.HashSet[java.util.Date]]
              TreeSet(1, 2) === HashSet(new Date, new Date)
                            ^

Source: SetEqualityConstraints.scala

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SetEqualityConstraints, TraversableEqualityConstraints, TraversableEqualityConstraints

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implicit def setEqualityConstraint[EA, CA[ea] <: GenSet[ea], EB, CB[eb] <: GenSet[eb]](implicit equalityOfA: Equality[CA[EA]], ev: CanEqual[EA, EB]): CanEqual[CA[EA], CB[EB]]

Provides an equality constraint that allows two subtypes of scala.collection.GenSets to be compared for equality with === so long as an EqualityConstraint is available for the element types.
Provides an equality constraint that allows two subtypes of scala.collection.GenSets to be compared for equality with === so long as an EqualityConstraint is available for the element types.
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Related Docs: object SetEqualityConstraints | package scalactic

trait SetEqualityConstraints extends AnyRef

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final def !=(arg0: Any): Boolean

final def ##(): Int

final def ==(arg0: Any): Boolean

final def asInstanceOf[T0]: T0

def clone(): AnyRef

final def eq(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean

def equals(arg0: Any): Boolean

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final def getClass(): Class[_]

def hashCode(): Int

final def isInstanceOf[T0]: Boolean

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final def notify(): Unit

final def notifyAll(): Unit

implicit def setEqualityConstraint[EA, CA[ea] <: GenSet[ea], EB, CB[eb] <: GenSet[eb]](implicit equalityOfA: Equality[CA[EA]], ev: CanEqual[EA, EB]): CanEqual[CA[EA], CB[EB]]

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def toString(): String

final def wait(): Unit

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final def wait(arg0: Long): Unit

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