Stephan Bergmann wrote:
<http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=60643> is about adding
a proper equals method to the Java classes that represent UNO struct
(and exception) types.
In the issue, I took up the position that adding equals would be an
incompatible change (code could rely on the equals being called being
the base definition from Object), and so some method with another name
should be introduced instead. However, thinking about it again, maybe
that approach is too conservative, and leads to unnecessary complexity.
Any objections against the (incompatibl, strictly speaking) change to
generate "proper" equals and hashCode methods for all the relevant Java
classes?
This turned out to be poorly thought through (old class files would need
to be regenerated to have equals methods; for polymorphic structs, too
much information is erased to allow a proper implementation of equals;
equals and inheritance do not work well together (and UNO structs and
exceptions do use inheritance); etc.), so I meanwhile fixed issue 60643
in another way, not using equals and/or hashCode.
-Stephan
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