Yes __equalsCal was meant to support equals for objects that had direct or indirectly references back to the object.
Rich Scheuerle
IBM WebSphere & Axis Web Services Development
512-838-5115 (IBM TL 678-5115)
"Steve Loughran"
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om> cc:
Subject: Q. about equals() in WSDL
generated datatypes
12/18/2002 02:38
PM
Please respond to
axis-dev
So I'm staring at the equals() method that's been generated for me from a
datatype
private java.lang.Object __equalsCalc = null;
public synchronized boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj) {
if (!(obj instanceof JobInfo)) return false;
JobInfo other = (JobInfo) obj;
if (obj == null) return false;
if (this == obj) return true;
if (__equalsCalc != null) {
return (__equalsCalc == obj);
}
__equalsCalc = obj;
...tests
__equalsCalc = null;
return _equals;
My q. is: what is all this __equalsCalc stuff? It implies that if there is
a
reentrant equality test then the test would return true while the test is
ongoing, but since the method is synchronized, you'd be hard pressed to
call
equals() twice.
Is that what the __equalsCalc is there for? To catch recursion?
-steve
