Jason Smiley created LANG-1330:
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Summary: EqualsBuilder can call custom equals method for class
Key: LANG-1330
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1330
Project: Commons Lang
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Jason Smiley
As a tester, there are times I want to exclude certain fields (like ID) for my
parent object and its children.
For example:
class Parent {
public String id;
public NormalChild child1;
public SpecialChild child2;
//uses ReflectionEqualsBuilder for equals();
//has custom equalsWithoutID() method;
}
class NormalChild extend Child {
public String name;
//uses ReflectionEqualsBuilder equals();
//has custom equalsWithoutID() method via inheritance;
}
class SpecialChild extend Child {
public String id;
public String name;
//uses ReflectionEqualsBuilder for equals();
//has custom equalsWithoutID() method via inheritence;
}
If I am running a reflectionEquals with excluding field "id" on my parent
object, the excludedFields won't be used on my children classes (only excludes
fields of parent with name). I would like to be able to call the custom
equalsWithoutID() if its an instance of class Child.
Currently i need to do a workaround where my equals() checks to see which
method I was using before executing but its not an ideal solution.
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