Github user jburwell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/535#discussion_r33406307
--- Diff:
framework/config/src/org/apache/cloudstack/framework/config/ConfigKey.java ---
@@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ public boolean equals(Object obj) {
if (obj instanceof ConfigKey) {
ConfigKey<?> that = (ConfigKey<?>)obj;
return this._name.equals(that._name);
+ }
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ public boolean isSameKeyAs(Object obj) {
+ if(this.equals(obj)) {
+ return true;
} else if (obj instanceof String) {
--- End diff --
``this.getClass().equals(obj.getClass())`` is preferred over ``instanceof``
because ``instanceof`` only verifies that the two objects are the compatible
types, not that the classes themselves are loaded from a common class loader.
If two objects have the same type but their underlying classes are loaded from
different class loaders, casting the objects will fail. Given that web
containers play games with class loaders and often load the same jar multiple
times, unexpected behavior and runtime exceptions (e.g. apparent duplicate Map
entries, ClassCastExceptions, etc) occurs.
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