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Pascal Schumacher commented on LANG-1330:
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If I understand this correctly, this is a duplicate of 
[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1249].

> EqualsBuilder should be able to call custom equals method for specified 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:
> {code}
> 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;
> }
> {code}
> 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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