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boolean equals(Object) and interfaces

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Adelbert Groebbens

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Nickname: adelbert
Registered: Jan, 2003

boolean equals(Object) and interfaces

Posted: Jan 24, 2003 9:23 AM

does

boolean equals(Object)

belongs in some interfaces or should it never be used in interfaces ?

what if an object that is going to implementing such an interface has already another

equals

method ?

what is a good way to seperate and
implement the following (for an object implementing
a given interface) :
- equality as far as the information related to the interface
is concerned
- equality as far as all information in the object is
concerned

Adelbert Groebbens

Jim

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Nickname: weejim
Registered: Jan, 2003

Re: boolean equals(Object) and interfaces

Posted: Jan 27, 2003 7:06 PM

boolean equals(Object)
belongs to java.lang.Object

equals(Object) is meant to compare an objects not interfaces

you may want to override the
public int hashCode()
from java.lang.Object too.

see javadocs for java.lang.Object for more detailed.

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