I am working on some other stuff, but Russell is also pestering me to
assess this code. I will reply later today.
Thanks,
Rich Scheuerle
IBM WebSphere & Axis Web Services Development
512-838-5115 (IBM TL 678-5115)
Glen Daniels
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Subject: RE: Q. about equals() in WSDL
generated datatypes
12/19/2002 07:59
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Please respond to
axis-dev
Hi Rich!
Hm - I'm trying to imagine an example for when this would actually get
used, and having trouble coming up with one. Could you elucidate? I guess
what I'm really asking is why doesn't "if (this == obj) return true" catch
this?
--G
P.S. Nice to see you back!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R J Scheuerle Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:27 PM
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> Subject: Re: Q. about equals() in WSDL generated datatypes
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> 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)
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> "Steve Loughran"
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> Subject: Q.
> about equals() in WSDL generated datatypes
> 12/18/2002 02:38
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> PM
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> Please respond to
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> axis-dev
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> 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;
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> 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.
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> Is that what the __equalsCalc is there for? To catch recursion?
>
> -steve
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