EntityComparisonOperator's compareEqual / compareNotEqual

[J. Eckard]

I was wondering if there was a reason that the EntityComparisonOperator methods 
"compareEqual" and "compareNotEqual" both take a Comparable argument but don't 
use that object's compareTo() method - instead they use equals().

I ran into the problem where:

        EntityComparisonOperator.compareEqual(BigDecimal.ZERO.setScale(6), 
BigDecimal.ZERO)

returns false… because BigDecimal's equals() method requires the scale to be 
the same.


I believe I encountered this when using a view entity which sums a BigDecimal 
column, then trying to filter the results using a condition:

    List<EntityCondition> conditionList = Lists.newArrayList();
    conditionList.add(EntityCondition.makeCondition("quantityNotAvailable", 
EntityOperator.EQUALS, null));
    conditionList.add(EntityCondition.makeCondition("quantityNotAvailable", 
EntityOperator.EQUALS, BigDecimal.ZERO));
    EntityCondition condition = 
EntityCondition.makeCondition(quantityNotAvailableConditionList, 
EntityOperator.OR);

In the cases where quantityNotAvailable is zero (technically "0.000000"),

        EntityCondition.makeCondition("quantityNotAvailable", 
EntityOperator.EQUALS, BigDecimal.ZERO)

will return false.