Hi, I've been searching for a good solution to implementing object equality. I'm familiar with ObjectUtil, etc., but it still makes things harder than they should be.
It may be best to illustrate this with an example. Suppose I have a ComboBox with an ArrayCollection as a data provider. The ArrayCollection is populated with value objects from the server, e.g., User objects. Suppose that I have a Task class, and a Task may have an assignedToUser property, which is a User instance. When the someone selects a Task (say, in a master-detail view), I would like the ComboBox to set its selectedItem to the user for the given Task, i.e., combBox.selectedItem = myUser.assignedToUser. The problem is that no Task in the ComboBox's data provider and the User's assignedToUser property are ever equal using the == or === operators. So I would like to implement a custom equality for User, and have the ComboBox use that to set its selectedItem to the specified user. In Java, this is easily done by overriding the equals() and hashCode() methods of User. Any suggestions on how to achieve something similar in Flex would be much appreciated. Thanks, -- Frank
